“All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.” IfsIdeasThreeChristianityAtheismMajorsIslamPositive AtheismCoreBritainJudaismHatefulExclusion Author:Matthew Parris
“Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.” IfsThinkingMenLooksMadeCharacterSexChristianityNovelBuddhismMajorsAdvantageIslamMade ItDistinctionHinduismJudaism Author:Katha Pollitt
“There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.” WayPersonsHappensSuccessGoalMoralChristianityGreaterMajorsDisasterStationsStoppingHazardsMoral Hazard Author:Bill Vaughan
“Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.” WorldSelfTalkingChristianityBuddhismEgoMajorsSpringHatredIslamGreedConclusionSelfishnessHinduismJudaismDarwinismConfucianismUnkindnessChristianity And Islam Author:Karen Armstrong
“The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.” MindChristianityStruggleCreationBirthMajorsLowsBlockVirginsStumblingMy StruggleStumbling BlocksVirgin BirthMind Boggling Book:A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob Source: A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob
“We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are engaged in some form of servitude of people. I don't look favorably on either one although I think properly practiced all religions are basically good.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksDifferentFormLevelsChristianityMajorsSlaveryIslamEducationalEngagedServitudeDifferent LevelsChristianity And Islam Author:John Henrik Clarke
“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
“I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.” ThinkingWarChristianFormPoliticalCultureSocialSidesReligiousChristianityDoubtFitRepublicanMajorsDemocratConservativeCurrentsOrthodoxCategoriesArrangementsObsoleteObjectionsVanguard Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism