“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.” FirstsAgeChurchChristianityMiddleIntellectualWestUniversityParisEmpiresMiddle AgesRoman EmpireOxfordCambridgeRoman CivilizationCambridge University Author:Nancy Pearcey
“The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.” ChristianityGreaterInfluenceFailureAreasWestSpreadSpainOutlook Author:Carroll Quigley
“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.” MenChristianityDyingWestIslamDeath And DyingHelplessScientismDisgraceful Author:Karen Armstrong
“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammad was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.” MenWellsChristianityDyingVictoryCrossesWestIslamHelplessDazzlingDisgraceful Author:Karen Armstrong
“The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.” MenWantNextChristianityEnemyUnityWestIslamEastDecadesDialogueWant UBe A ManConfrontationContention Author:Benazir Bhutto
“Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.” KindDoneChristianPastGoalReligiousChristianityWestKillingHumanismPrimeOutrageCrusadesPast And Present Author:J. I. Packer
“The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.” WorldChristianityApproachWestEastOther Worlds Author:Abdelkader El Djezairi
“Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades.” WayCultureIndividualChristianityDignityWestEastRevolutionarySomething NewUnconditionalNationalityCrusades Author:Walter Kasper
“Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of the self is something that is experienced in the sight of God. So that the great thinkers of self and subjectivity are Paul and Augustine. They look at the self from the perspective of God and they find themselves wretched and interesting. Constituted by conflictual desires.” LooksMeanSelfDesireInterestingChristianityPerspectiveSightWestDepthThinkerWretchedSubjectivityAugustineGreat Thinkers Author:Simon Critchley
“The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.” PeopleChristianityStupidConflictWestIslamEastStupid PeopleEast And WestChristianity And Islam Author:Terry Pratchett
“The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it has persisted because it's based very, very deeply in religious roots, where Islam is seen as a kind of competitor of Christianity.” WorldKindReligiousChristianityStudyPeriodsEuropeRootsWestIslamViolentIslamicIrrationalThreateningCompetitorsDominanceVery DeepLustfulOrientalism Author:Edward Said
“There is false of Aristotelian logic, which is so much the basis of Christianity, and to some extent, Judaism in the west. Too rational, too logical, too masculine, chauvinistic, male dominated, head over heart, mind over body, heaven different than earth and so on, rather than yin/yang, inter-being, interwoven, inseparably.” MindHeartDifferentBodyEarthHeavenChristianityLogicBasesWestMalesRationalLogicalJudaismMasculineYang Author:Surya Das
“The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.” GivingSaidSeemsChristianValuesChristianityTakenIllusionFoundationWestRemove Book:What's So Great About Christianity Source: What's So Great About Christianity
“Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.” WorldMayStillsCountryTodayChristianChristianityTakenDangerReturnBecomingHatredAccountsWestIslamGravesShakesStatesmenMenaceAnti ChristianWorld Power Author:Fulton J. Sheen