What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“American Christianity did not undergo the church-emptying declines of European Christianity. Its perspective was similar to that of Mother Teresa, who in… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac [Constantine] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain?… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
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