Christianity takes this beating that I really don’t understand and yet you can’t say anything negative about the Muslims because that’s horrible, you can’t say anything negative about other faiths.
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.
Christianity made us think there’s one heaven.
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
I think the most influential aspect of my work is to show that Judaism and Christianity exist in a continuity with archaic religions.
I feel like Christianity gets very misconstrued sometimes. People don’t realize that every day is a normal day just like anybody else, but we’re just trying to improve every day. It’s not about putting anybody down or telling anybody they’re wrong. It’s more about trying to do what’s right for your own self.
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus’s death and resurrection.
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping’s China, and you can wind up in a cell.
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.
Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up… the church we had was very lavish – very boasty. So it ticked most of the boxes of big, imposing Christianity. And I love being there if I’m in town… because it’s just this haunting place.
Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.
The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn’t add up.
It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.
The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.
The Enlightenment attacked religion – Christianity, mainly – for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
In many, many instances, traditional Christianity fails to meet the real needs of the people.
We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.
When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what’s going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it’s going to end, how can any human know what God wants?
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
We are not the Westboro Baptist Church. We are a church that embraces the tenants of historic Christianity – there’s nothing hateful about our members at all.
Besides Christianity and specifically Catholicism being wonderful, Christmas is intrinsic to American culture and worth defending. Think of what happens at Christmas time. People play Mariah Carey Christmas songs… What else do you need in life?
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Socialism appeals to me. It’s like imposed Christianity. You’ve got to share.
We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.
From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel’s universal reach.
It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
The reason people don’t take Christianity very seriously anymore is because all people do is put it on their business cards and blab to get on television.
Christianity isn’t the only group that has fundamentalists.
That’s what I love about my faith and Christianity. It’s the polar opposite of darn near everything I experienced in the wrestling business. I still love the business, and I’m thankful for everything that it’s provided, but the idea that it deals in the truth is the furthest thing from reality.
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That’s soul killing!
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in ‘religion.’ I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.
I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I’m not a Republican.
The thing I found when I was actually reading through the Quran is that Christianity – that is a very easy switch to make to lead a Muslim to Christ.
At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that the best books already existing, besides being old, treat chiefly of aboriginal customs and habits now extinct, and of the introduction of Christianity and subsequent historical events.
I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.
To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.
Christianity is part of the common law.
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.
Would you take anybody’s views on Christianity seriously if they hadn’t read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn’t. So I read the Koran.
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man’s life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual – or even than that of the race.
