Belief Quote by Robert Payne

“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course…

— John Dewey

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of…

— Georg Ebers

“it could not and would not happen so long as Christians “continued to believe that natural man was totally corrupt, that suffering and subordination…

— David E. Stannard

“I would argue that religion itself is a corruption.  Isn’t it good enough to look at Jesus as a dubiously historical moral philosopher that…

— Noah Lugeons

“For he also researched the history of Christianity and felt it was based on many earlier fraudulent mistakes made by those bent on perverting…

— Lee Vickers

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

— Helmut Schoeck

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

— Horace Bushnell

The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the…

— Robert H. Schuller

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they…

— Blaise Pascal

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers…

— Bertrand Russell

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

— Dan Brown

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche