Christian Quote by John Shelby Spong

“The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end…

— Norman F. Cantor

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on…

— Monica Bellucci

The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman…

— Elaine Pagels

From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“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

“Why, then, were Jews allowed to live among Christians? The answer dates back to the teachings of St. Augustine (see Chapter 2). He maintained…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Judaism was a legal religion in the Roman Empire; Christianity was not until the first Christian emperor ascended the throne in the fourth century…

— Norman F. Cantor

“The separation of Christianity from Judaism did not happen simply or quickly. It was not a single event but rather a sometimes painful process…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly…

— Reza Aslan

“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of biological, social…

— Wilhelm Reich

“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state and the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because…

— Sargent Shriver