“The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.” PeopleYearsHas BeensTwoReasonHateChurchSinTerribleThousandMajorsCommitReason WhyThousand YearsTerrible Things Author:Michael Coren
“The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.” WorldWaySoulReligionChurchMy OwnMillionsBearsThousandRiversMy SoulLove LifeCreedsLampsPointingFloatsGiverBosomsSpires Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?” MenYearsBelieveTwoChurchPrinciplesThousandUniversalTraitsThousand YearsSurvivedReadinessGullibility Author:Umberto Eco
“Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.” MenFirstsSaidTwoChristianEvilFoundHeavenChurchReligiousMillionsEffectsAmountThousandHundredSevenAidsAwfulZealFanaticismPiousChristian ChurchExpeditionsPresuming Book:Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species Source: Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species
“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.” PeopleWantYearsTwoCultureChurchBloodFrontsBrotherThousandYears AgoLettersWorkersDefenseNeighborFleshThousand YearsUnclesIrrelevantBrothers And SistersAuntLove Each OtherYour BrotherFlesh And BloodCo WorkerAunts And UnclesChurch Bells Author:Rob Bell
“St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.” PeopleFirstsChristianThreeChurchThousandGladPeterPrimitiveSermonsConvertingPentecostTidingsSt Peter Author:John Strachan