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The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 1.0

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The Road to Wigan Pier · 1937

★ 1.3

The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured-especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

E.O. Wilson

1998

★ 1.7

Interview

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

Jimmy Carter

1979

★ 1.9

Biography

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

Samuel Johnson

James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1763

★ 1.9

Novel

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

1892

★ 1.9

Religious literature

It is to believed because it is absurd.

Tertullian

On the Flesh of Christ · 206

★ 2.1

Historical literature

It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.

William E.H. Lecky

History of European Morals · 1869

★ 2.6

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

1881

★ 3.5

Religious literature

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy · 1908

★ 3.5

Poem

Christ of his gentleness Thirsting and hungering, Walked in the wilderness; Soft words of grace He spoke Unto lost desert-folk That listened wondering.

Robert Graves

1916

★ 3.5

He who begins by loving Christianity, better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1825

★ 3.5

Essay

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

G.K. Chesterton

1910

★ 3.5

Historical literature

The pure and genuine influence of Christianity may be traced in its beneficial, though imperfect, effects on the barbarian proselytes of the North. If the decline of the Roman empire was hastened by the conversion of Constantine, his victorious religion broke the violence of the fall, and mollified the ferocious temper of the conquerors.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1788

★ 3.5

Essay

Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the Blessing of the New.

Francis Bacon

1625

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

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. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

★ 3.7

Letter

Christians are not born, but made.

St. Jerome

403

★ 3.8

Religious literature

He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.

St. Cyprian

251

★ 3.9

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

You're born a sinner. By being born you are a sinner and you're going to hell. But you can just apologize and then you can go to heaven. No big deal. If you're a murderer—same thing, it's just apologize and go to heaven.

Sarah Silverman

We are Miracles · 2013

★ 5.2

Philosophical literature

There was really only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Antichrist · 1895

★ 6.5

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