I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work.
Church Quotes
I use an image of a cathedral, which I call the cathedral of the world. It has many, many windows, and we can’t even get close to exploring one apse during our lifetime. But we are born in one part of the cathedral, and our parents and grandparents and neighbors teach us the ways in […]
The divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any state, or in any nation, should be exempt from taxation, for if you exempt the church property of any church organization, to that extent you impose tax […]
There is no salvation outside the church.
If anyone strives after humility and patience, he is a hypocrite. If he allow himself in the pleasures of this world, he is a glutton. If he seeks justice, he is impatient. If he seeks it not, he is a fool. If he would be prudent, he is stingy; if he would make others happy, […]
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
Without knowing it, I became a logical positivist at about the age of ten. Every Sunday, I was supposed to make the two-mile walk to the local Church of England à it was a long time before I discovered there was any other variety à to attend a service for the village youth. To encourage […]
Christ lives on in the Church, but Christ crucified. One might almost venture to say that the defects of the Church are His Cross.
A life ago, I was depressed, broke, homeless, unemployed and divorced… I went to the priest and asked him if it would be okay (to be confirmed into the Anglican church) considering I didn’t accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior, didn’t believe the Bible was divinely inspired and wasn’t entirely sure about the whole […]