Buddhism Quote by Frank Schaeffer

Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and…

— Ernest Renan

“The point was this: if Enlightenment progress is solving the problem of evil, all Jesus needs to have done is to point the way,…

— N.T. Wright

“As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, “Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.”

— Shane Claiborne

“society. The task of theology was not to mirror the norms of culture, but when necessary to confront and even contradict them, since it…

— David Schnasa Jacobsen

In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice…

— Erich Fromm

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

— Eric Hoffer

The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a…

— Tariq Ali

“Capital . . . in the political field is analogous to government . . . The economic idea of capitalism, the politics of government…

— Anonymous

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to…

— Pierre Bayle

“About all that Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans and Anabaptists agreed upon was the divinity of Jesus and the wickedness of the pope.”

— Rodney Stark

“He believed that all forms of government were spiritually bankrupt, that the only true way to follow Jesus was to be radically self-reliant –…

— Catherine Lacey

“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward…

— Gregory A. Boyd