William Howitt

"Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and — most marvelous of all — went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny."

"The barbarities and desperate outrages of the so-called Christian race, throughout every region of the world, and upon every people they have been able to subdue, are not to be paralleled by those of any other race, however fierce, however untaught, and however reckless of mercy and of shame in any age of the earth."

"Die Barbareien und ruchlosen Greueltaten der sogen. christlichen Racen, in jeder Gegend der Welt und gegen jedes Volk, das sie unterjochen konnten, finden keine Parallele in irgendeiner Ära der Weltgeschichte, bei irgendeiner Race, ob noch so wild und ungebildet, mitleidlos und schamlos."