One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in accordance with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case – and never has been.
Christianity Quotes
The Crusaders in general, in spite of their sacred cause, behaved like highway robbers. The first host which set out in 1095, and was annihilated by the Turks at Nicaea, killed, burned and pillaged all they encountered. The army commanded by Godfrey de Bouillon massacred the entire population of Jerusalem (1098). The astuteness of Venice […]
Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was “a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners” – or […]
One can find innumerable dumb things said and done by Christians in the name of Christianity, both in the past and at present – perhaps especially at present. The propensity to say and do dumb things, and even wicked things, is simply part of human nature. One can blame the Church or Christianity for such […]
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
Of late years, the Church has not succeeded very well in preaching Christ; she has preached Jesus, which is not quite the same thing.
The Catholic Church, as Chesterton observed, is ever so much larger from the inside than from the outside.
You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don’t have to be nice to them.
Christ founded no church, created no state, passed no law, established no government. His purpose was to place the law of God in the hearts of people, to make them self-governing.
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and […]
