“Nicaea really was, after all, a sort of “coming of age” for the Church—and like many adolescents, she hesitated to leave childhood behind.” — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood as a response to this religious collapse: a mass of hopeless, worn-out cynics trying to shock themselves awake whether with pleasure or pain. Yet deep inside, they were hungering for something higher. What the Romans needed, and in… — Rod Bennett Copy Share
“Christianity made people unpatriotic, made them intolerant and dogmatic, willing to criticize other people’s gods and alternative lifestyles.” — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
“Nicaea really was, after all, a sort of “coming of age” for the Church—and like many adolescents, she hesitated to leave childhood behind.” — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
“G.K. Chesterton put it well: “It was the best thing the world had yet seen, all things considered and on any large scale, that… — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
