Christina Engela > Quotes

“Rejecting your gay or transgender child won't make them straight. It will only mean you will lose them.”
― Christina Engela, Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire

“Sorry to disappoint you, parents - but when your kids come out as gay, bi or transgender, it is not about you.”
― Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror

“In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It's the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you realize you could die right now - and want to, but realize that even death won't make the difference you were hoping for.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer

“Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“While there is no shame in being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex - or even straight (but not narrow) - there is most certainly shame and dishonor in being a homophobe, a transphobe and a bigot.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.”
― Christina Engela

“What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

“What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1

“Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.”
― Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah

“When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Nationalism is what makes some people think they are better than others and just as often inspires delusions of superiority.”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“All it takes to be a voice against injustice, is to say something against it.”
― Christina Engela

“You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner

“Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway.”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner

“Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't mean just being 'good' - it means being 'better' than others. Being better that others means having to see them as enemies - and making war on them. The fundamentalist views not being allowed to make war on their enemies as oppression of their faith, or defeat.”
― Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror

“It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all their time and energy spreading unhappiness and hatred for others - and are themselves consumed by it - are by the very definition of the term - false prophets.”
― Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah

“Why do I dislike nationalism? First it starts with 'birds of a feather flock together' and it gradually becomes more a case of 'my dog is better than your dog' - with knives in it...”
― Christina Engela, Loderunner

“The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Rise of Science Denialism

The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as ‘an agenda’, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.”
― Christina Engela, The Pink Community - The Facts

“You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it.”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“People who have practiced occult religions for many years are being told that they don't know the first thing about their own religion and its beliefs and practices - and that a bunch of zealots from another religion posing as 'experts' (in a religion they despise/ fear/ oppose and who peddle slander and misinformation about occult religions), are more credible than they are.

Non Seqitur. This does not follow.”
― Christina Engela

“Is there any good left in the world/ And if there is, can you still find it in the places that matter? Why is it that the only places i see it now, is in the graves of the victims, and the tears of those who mourn them?”
― Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah

“Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tried to take that choice away.”
― Christina Engela, All That Remains

“How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Did he put a gun in your hand?”
― Christina Engela, Black Sunrise

“Even when you're down, there is still hope. No matter how bad things get and no matter how small a hope there is, anything is better than nothing, No matter how bad things get, they can always, ALWAYS get worse. Take my word on that.”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“If all people were to be judged by 'right and wrong', nobody would be wholly right or wholly wrong - for have not all people 'sinned and fallen from the glory of God'? It seems more than a little unfair that some folks with at least as much 'sin' themselves as any gay or trans person, like to jump up and down and point fingers at other people.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart