I believe because it is absurd.
TERTULLIANThe more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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He who flees will fight again.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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