--- title: "4 Christian States Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 4 Christian States quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Christian States sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/philip-jenkins-10529_christianity_any-acquaintance-with-recent-history-mad_479163.jpg" --- > [“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/any-acquaintance-with-recent-history-made-nonsense-of-any-claim-that/) [Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/philip-jenkins-10529_christianity_any-acquaintance-with-recent-history-mad_479163.jpg) > [“Looking at the sweep of Christian history, we are often reminded of this message of the transience of human affairs, and, based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/looking-at-the-sweep-of-christian-history-we-are-often-reminded-of/) [Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/philip-jenkins-10529_christianity_looking-at-the-sweep-of-christian-histor_1109043.jpg) > [I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-finkelstein/i-don-t-think-it-s-a-good-thing-to-have-christian-states-muslim/) [Norman Finkelstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-finkelstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/norman-finkelstein-8854_a-good-thing_i-don-t-think-it-s-a-good-thing-to-have_1266160.png) > [“Though churches may lose political influence under Christian states or in predominantly Christian societies, though they might be secularized, they do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/though-churches-may-lose-political-influence-under-christian-states/) [Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/philip-jenkins-10529_politics_though-churches-may-lose-political-influ_2202366.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christian-states/#itemlist", "name": "Christian States Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Any acquaintance with recent history made nonsense of any claim that God was on the side of Christian states. As one scholar suggests, what turned Christians to Islam was “the common acceptance by Muslim and Christian alike of the error that the favor of God is shown by worldly success.”22 Self-evidently, Islam represented growth, expansion, and success, in contrast to the tattered shreds of Christianity. Any traveler could see the splendid mosques rising amid the landscape of ruined churches and deserted monasteries. 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Even the Roman Empire was not to exist forever. Yet while Christian states have come and gone, not all the apparent disasters that afflicted particular communities have prevented the growth of what is today the world’s most numerous religion, and which will remain so for the foreseeable future.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Jenkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/looking-at-the-sweep-of-christian-history-we-are-often-reminded-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/philip-jenkins-10529_christianity_looking-at-the-sweep-of-christian-histor_1109043.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/philip-jenkins-10529_christianity_looking-at-the-sweep-of-christian-histor_1109043.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/philip-jenkins-10529_christianity_looking-at-the-sweep-of-christian-histor_1109043.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Looking at the sweep of Christian history, we are often reminded of this message of the transience of human…” — Philip Jenkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Norman Finkelstein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-finkelstein/i-don-t-think-it-s-a-good-thing-to-have-christian-states-muslim/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/norman-finkelstein-8854_a-good-thing_i-don-t-think-it-s-a-good-thing-to-have_1266160.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/norman-finkelstein-8854_a-good-thing_i-don-t-think-it-s-a-good-thing-to-have_1266160.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/norman-finkelstein-8854_a-good-thing_i-don-t-think-it-s-a-good-thing-to-have_1266160.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.” — Norman Finkelstein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Though churches may lose political influence under Christian states or in predominantly Christian societies, though they might be secularized, they do not vanish anything like as thoroughly as in the African and Asian examples mentioned. In most of these cases, churches collapsed or vanished because they were unable to cope with the pressures placed upon them by hostile regimes, mainly Muslim. 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