Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
J. Gordon Melton
Born: September 19, 1942 (age 81)
Bio: John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Known for:
- The vampire book (1994)
- Encyclopedia of American Religions (1978)
- Encyclopedia Of Protestantism (2005)
- Finding enlightenment (1996)
- The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena (2006)