Distribution Quote by John Dominic Crossan

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.

— Frederick Lenz

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

— Edward Abbey

The crucifixion saved him [Jesus]. He never had to deal with the fact that the kingdom of God wasn't ever going to come. His…

— Philip Pullman

“Jesus was crucified for doing nothing And God is worshiped for even less.”

— Porcupine Tree

Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them…

— Paul Weyrich

Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people.…

— Jeremiah Wright

“We’ve lost the real Jesus—or at least exchanged him for a newer, safer, sanitized, ineffectual one. We’ve created a Christian subculture that comes with…

— Jefferson Bethke

They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.

— Frederick Lenz

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was…

— Reza Aslan

“Here the crucified Christ was seen less as the sacrifice which God creates to reconcile the world to himself, and more as the exemplary…

— Jurgen Moltmann

“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

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

— Matt Chandler