Christianity Quote by Mary Douglas

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

— George Coyne

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

— Diane Ackerman

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name…

— Riane Eisler

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

— John Burroughs

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism…

— Susan Howatch

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

— Laurens van der Post

Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it…

— Colin Wilson

But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

— Alan Hirsch

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

— Jon Stewart

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress…

— Bertrand Russell

“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism,…

— Richard Rohr