“Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.” PeopleKnowsWellsRealCareChristChristianityPlanetsEnlightenmentEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.” YearsHumansLongHas BeensTwoSelfStatesBigsPastAsksIndividualGoalInterestConsciousnessChristianitySacrificeCenturyHigherThousandConflictEnlightenmentDirectOkayOrganizationAskingCommunismCooperationThousand YearsSelf InterestOffspringHuman ConsciousnessHigher Goals Author:David Gerrold
“Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.” WorldHas BeensBookShowsChristianityWrittenAtheismIgnoranceEnlightenmentDoctrineSuperstitions Author:Edgar Lee Masters
“If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.” IfsMenGivingReasonWould BeChristianNaturalChristianityCasesAtheismOffersEnlightenmentDifficultyInfinitePositive AtheismFormerLatterMultitudesObscurityClarifying Author:Denis Diderot
“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.” WayEarthSpiritualReligionOrderNamesWomenPowerfulChristianityEnlightenmentThreatPerpetuatingSpiritual Enlightenment Author:Riane Eisler
“There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.” WorldFirstsTwoTodayChristianityPsychologyFindingsEnlightenmentHumanismPopsIndividualismSecularAmazedTestamentNew TestamentWorld TodayModernismNaturalismClergyRationalismRelativismPostmodernAccommodationsEgalitarianismNicenessSecular HumanismSubjectivism Author:Peter Kreeft
“When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment.” WorldChristianityEnlightenmentNew WorldMedievalWorldviewRenaissance Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard
“Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness.” PeopleNamesChristCommunitySecretConsciousnessChristianityBuddhismTruth IsEnlightenmentBreathsPropertyDepthAwakeningGoodwill Author:Jean Leloup
“I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.” ThinkingBelieveHeavenProcessChristianityGoneHellDangerousEnlightenmentAngelIslamDon't BelieveSuperstitionsTestedHeaven And Hell Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.” MadeIdeasReligiousChristianityProductsEnlightenmentTraditionPhilosophicalHumanismGreekWho We AreOur SocietyJudaismGreat Religious Author:Jan Peter Balkenende