"If you look at the New Testament, it's……" — Jonathan Franzen
"If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven and there's talk of people not getting into heaven, but it doesn't seem to me that the fundamental message of the gospels was one of guilt and retribution so much as love."
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Jonathan Franzen
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