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“In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.”

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.”

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Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all of our lives.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.”

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Book:Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

Source: Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

“Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.”

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Book:Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved

Source: Joint Debate Hubbard-Albertson: Question: Resolved

“I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.”

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Author:Sean Lennon

“Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.”

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Author:Novalis

“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.”

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Author:Herbert Read

“I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.”

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Author:Anne Rice

“Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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.”

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Author:Jonathan Swift

“First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.”

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Author:Barbara Walters

“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”

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Book:The writings of John Burroughs

Source: The writings of John Burroughs

“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.”

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Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.”

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