Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the…

— Rodney Stark

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

— Oliver Stone

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It…

— Anonymous

“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we commonly think…

— Philip Jenkins

“The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary…

— Gore Vidal

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo…

— John G. Lake

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

— Thomas Jefferson

“American Christianity did not undergo the church-emptying declines of European Christianity. Its perspective was similar to that of Mother Teresa, who in 1988 said,…

— J.M.R. Higgs

“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain? Which side…

— Paul Johnson

You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for…

— Adolf Hitler

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its…

— Adolf Hitler

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

— John Burroughs

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on…

— Diana Butler Bass

In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of…

— Jacques Maritain