Christianity Quote by Bernard Cornwell

“The Romans gave them Roman names, and let them be; but the Christians refuse to believe in them, and their priests berate the poorer…

— Mary Stewart

“The typical conservative Roman was far too practical for that. If you didn’t know by age five that the gods were made-up creatures and…

— Anne Rice

“Contemporaries struggled to make sense of what, to them, was the complete collapse of the world order. “Why does [God] allow us to be…

— Peter Frankopan

“What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?”

— Vicky Alvear Shecter

“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to…

— Tom Robbins

“One of the early critics of Christianity was Celsus (fl. 180), the witty philosopher who observed that Christianity was a "degraded kind of Platonism,…

— D.M. Murdock

“Even Tacitus admitted that “whatever their origin, [the Jews’] observances are sanctioned by their antiquity,”64 and the Romans respected tradition. Christians, however, had no…

— Elaine Pagels

“Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the Roman Empire.”

— Alejandro C. Estrada

We were all Romans once, I guess.

— Omar Epps

“It is no great hermeneutic feat to recognize that Rome crucified Jesus because of His claim to be king. The charge was posted over…

— Christopher Gorton

"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices…

— Larry Hurtado

“Though they love people, the Christians are enemies of our life, our gods and our crimes; hence she fled from me, as from a…

— Henryk Stanczyk