Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
But even in the Christian religion much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced.
As with the Christian religion the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion as organized in its Churches has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
The Christian religion though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
This is God's world not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs not non-Christians.
If then you are looking for the way by which you should go take Christ because He Himself is the way.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.
I like your Christ I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
I had cars houses jewels furs and a husband who loved me and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.
If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.
I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview in other words a view of the world based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
I always believed in God and Christ but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ which we believe sets us right with God the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
But with Christ we have access in a one-to-one relationship for as in the Old Testament it was more one of worship and awe a vertical relationship. The New Testament on the other hand we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual that's evil?
I serve a higher power Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
I can't change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.