Accepted Quote by Aldous Huxley

Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe.…

— Frederick The Great

Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

— Mike Donehey

Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine?…

— Elaine Pagels

Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then…

— Frederick The Great

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

— Yann Martel

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all…

— Ram Dass

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

— Elaine Pagels

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it…

— Max Heindel

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that…

— Larry Hurtado

[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.

— James Madison

It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

— John Dewey

“Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into…

— R. Alan Woods