The correct response to modernity is not to place God beyond the limits of reason, or drag him into history from the outside, or domesticate him in “religious sentiment,” or bottle him up in bourgeois mentality by making belief in him a human excellence. Nor is it the answer to assert that to move away […]
Christianity Quotes
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: – One who wished to preserve Judaism – one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own.
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works… I mean real good works… not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing… or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.
The Christians of the early centuries were generally pure Communists, sometimes “Social Democrats,” who according to the prevailing theory in Germany today, ought to have been exterminated with fire and sword.
There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished to convert the world, still others showing that […]
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
However, it does not seem reasonable to consider Jesus responsible for all the things which Christian churches or individual Christians later did in his name, particularly since he would obviously disapprove of many of those things. Some of them for example the religious wars between various Christian sects, and the barbaric massacres and persecutions of […]
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon that book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution […]
Why do vampires always chase down Christians? Why not Jews, or Arabs? You know, somebody who won’t be carrying a cross!
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
