Christianity Quote by Philip Jenkins

“Our nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution. Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade after decade,…

— John Price

“attempting to understand what could have eroded our sense of community, an important role has traditionally been accorded to the privatization of religious belief…

— Alain de Botton

“The only part of the world where tribalism was fully superseded by more voluntary and individualistic forms of social relationship was Europe, where Christianity…

— Francis Fukuyama

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

— Arthur Keith

“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”

— David D. Flowers

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after the end…

— Andrew Himes

“It was actually in the Atlantic West that we first witnessed the paradox of religious fundamentalism: that it reflects the weakening of religious conviction.”

— Pankaj Mishra

“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang the ideals…

— Jürgen Habermas

“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to…

— Bertrand Russell

“The historical irony is that European Christians coming to the Americas were escaping highly stratified and intolerant societies; in North America they encountered societies…

— Steven Charleston

“The radically countercultural and revolutionary movement that Jesus birthed has, in our country (as in every other “Christian” country), been largely reduced to little…

— Gregory A. Boyd