From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Salman Rushdie
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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In this quote, Oscar Wilde said: “From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.” It is fairly easy to see that this man knew a thing or two about the world. There is no way one could observe all of the injustices and evils in the world and not see that they were justified by God. A better explanation for this phrase is that people would use faith in God to excuse their bad behavior. If someone wanted to do something that was wrong, they would use faith in God as an excuse for such behavior.

Source: The Satanic Verses

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