Christ Quote by Porphyry

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

— William Hazlitt

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is sometimes an animosity for Christianity.

— Lacey Sturm

People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they are more…

— Elaine Pagels

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

— David Platt

“Some religions actually go so far as to label anyone who belongs to a religious sect other than their own a heretic, even though…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

— Christopher Hitchens

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects…

— Thomas Jefferson

“For eighteen centuries avid and pious Christians of divergent sects had overlaid the simplicity of Biblical scenes with tawdry symbolism, rude commercialism, and pious…

— David H. Finnie

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Churches that are filled with self-righteous, exclusive, insecure, angry, moralistic people are extremely unattractive. Their public pronouncements are often highly judgmental, while internally such…

— Timothy Keller