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title: "18 Christianity Did Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Christianity Did quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Christianity Did sayings and thoughts."
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> [Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-durant/christianity-did-not-destroy-paganism-it-adopted-it/)

[Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-durant/)

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> [Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-stone/christianity-did-take-a-lot-of-greek-concepts/)

[Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-stone/)

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> [What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elaine-pagels/what-survived-as-orthodox-christianity-did-so-by-suppressing-and/)

[Elaine Pagels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elaine-pagels/)

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> [Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-burroughs/science-has-done-more-for-the-development-of-western-civilization-in/)

[John Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-burroughs/)

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> [Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-butler-bass/christianity-did-not-begin-with-a-confession-it-began-with-an/)

[Diana Butler Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-butler-bass/)

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> [Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/gouverneur-morris-had-often-told-me-that-general-washington-believed/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/christianity-did-not-come-with-tidings-of-great-joy-but-with-a/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-maritain/in-point-of-fact-western-philosophy-has-never-set-itself-free-of/)

[Jacques Maritain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-maritain/)

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> [... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-stark/all-questions-concerning-the-rise-of-christianity-are-one-how-was-it/)

[Rodney Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-stark/)

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> [In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-g-lake/in-those-early-centuries-of-christianity-christianity-did-not-go-into/)

[John G. Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-g-lake/)

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> [The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/the-greatness-of-christianity-did-not-lie-in-attempted-negotiations/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/you-see-it-s-been-our-misfortune-to-have-the-wrong-religion-why-didn/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/there-is-nothing-intrinsic-linking-any-religion-with-any-act-of/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-were-honest-people-long-before-there-were-christians-and-there/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The disasters of the late Middle Ages tore Christianity from its roots—cultural, geographical, and linguistic. This “uprooting” created the Christianity that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-jenkins/the-disasters-of-the-late-middle-ages-tore-christianity-from-its/)

[Philip Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-jenkins/)

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> [“American Christianity did not undergo the church-emptying declines of European Christianity. Its perspective was similar to that of Mother Teresa, who in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-m-r-higgs/american-christianity-did-not-undergo-the-church-emptying-declines-of/)

[J.M.R. Higgs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-m-r-higgs/)

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> [“The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/the-malice-of-a-true-christian-attempting-to-destroy-an-opponent-is/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [ “How could the Christian Church, apparently quite willingly, accommodate this weird megalomaniac \[Constantine\] in it's theocratic system? Was there a conscious bargain?… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-johnson/how-could-the-christian-church-apparently-quite-willingly-accommodate/)

[Paul Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-johnson/)

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                        "text": "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 the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?",
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                        "text": "“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 of today as the true historical norm, but which in reality was the product of the elimination of alternative realities. Christianity did indeed become “European,” but about a millennium later than most people think.”",
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                        "text": "“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, “Why should we care about the Earth when our duty is to the poor and the sick among us? God will take care of the Earth.” Here God is the “big man” of the tribe who offers protection in return for service. Accepting that the climate could spiral into chaos is accepting that such protection does not exist. This makes working to prevent climate change ideologically problematic.”",
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                        "text": "“The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt—the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did.”",
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