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“So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.”

Years Given Existence Christianity Atheism Hundred Sacred Fifteen Preference Astronomers Profane

Book:History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...

“Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.”

World Years States Certain Three Christianity Position Victory Hundred Appearance Socialism Empires Sixty

Book:K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

Source: K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

“Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.”

Years Lasts Language Christianity Hundred India British Fifty English Language Englishmen British Rule

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

Ifs Knows Years Wells Play Strong Process Simple Christianity Roles Focus Four Buddhism Hundred Universal Notion

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.”

Stills Country Christian Christianity Hell Crime Degrees Hundred Invention Our Country Bloody Notable Grabbing Prodigious Predatory

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.”

Ifs Should Wish Christianity Hundred Nine Wander Ninety Folds Sects Ninety Nine

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”

Christianity Hundred Christian Inspirational Obedience Godly Sermons

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”

People Mind Christian Church Christianity Atheism Goes On Percent Hundred Intelligent Atheist Connected Nine Sooner Or Later Bullshit Ninety Christian Church Ninety Nine

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”

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

Years Done Religion Literature Christianity Development Civilization Hundred Western Eighteen Western Civilization Good Christian

Book:The writings of John Burroughs

Source: The writings of John Burroughs