“"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."” ShouldSaidReligionJesusChurchChristianityFocusPastorRepentDenominations Author:Michael Catt
“Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsPlayStrongProcessSimpleChristianityRolesFocusFourBuddhismHundredUniversalNotion Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“It's a good time to say "Oh" and take stock and say, "Gee, how was I ethically this year?" That's the problem with faith, Joe. What it does is it kind of screws up your priorities. Your priorities shouldn't be saving your own ass, which is the focus of Christianity. The focus should be, I'm a good person, and I do that just for the sake of being good. Like the Christmas song says, "Be good for goodness' sake."” ShouldYearsKindPersonsDoeProblemSongChristianityFocusGoodnessSakeBe GoodPrioritiesAssSavingGood TimesScrewsGood PersonScrew UpsChristmas Song Author:Bill Maher
“Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.” Has BeensTodayAbleNamesInterestChristianityPovertyHellFocusBearsDemandBreathsThreatGuitarSavedMoodDoctrineHypocrisyContrastShedReplacedMonkMedievalRecogniseChastityWoodyGullibleRetainingSleepers Author:A.C. Grayling
“I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.” ThinkingKindChristianityCasesFocusLet MeExpertsOrganizedOrganized Religion Author:John Shelby Spong
“In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't today realize just how different early Christianity was in that context.” MadeDifferentTodayRealizingChristianityFocusMajorsMade ItOddFeaturesBizarreDistinctiveDestroyers Author:Larry Hurtado
“The word "Christian" means something in particular. The basic outline and general truths and doctrines central to Christianity have been hammered out over 2000 years of reflection on the teachings of Jesus and his apostles. If you disagree with these foundational concerns - the kinds of things I focus on in The Story of Reality - then you're simply not a Christian.” KindMeanRealityChristianJesusChristianityFocusTeachingReflectionConcernDisagree Author:Greg Koukl
“I think, a lot of things get wrestled around with Christianity in this day and age about what it means, what it stands for and I think it gets the wrong connotation all over the world. So, for me, using baseball and using Jesus' name - I really just want to focus on Him. I don't want to think about Christianity or the religious aspect of it. You just want to focus on Jesus and loving Jesus. Saying you're a Christian shouldn't turn people off. You should love people well and that's Jesus' first commandment!” PeopleThinkingWorldMeanAgeChristianJesusReligiousChristianityFocusBaseballThis Day Author:Clayton Kershaw
“I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.” IfsWantNeedsHas BeensImportantReasonProblemChurchSinChristianityFocusWorstCenturyBuddhismIslamCorruptionSubtleCatholicismHinduismSubmitJudaismHis LoveAccusedPremisesIsms Author:Erwin McManus