One can’t understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive – they’re reacting to what they call secular humanism.
Peter L. Berger | Religion, Christianity
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
Paul Ricoeur | Christianity, Hermeneutic
The word ”Christianity” is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Jesus Christ
One is not free to become a Christian. One must be sick enough for it.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Christianity
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Christianity, Morality
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature- is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Doubt, Sin, Christianity
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Christianity was from the beginning
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former – although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Christianity, Philosophy
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.
G.K. Chesterton – Christianity, Fool
It’s not that the Christian faith has been tried and found difficult, but rather it’s been found difficult and left untried.
G.K. Chesterton – Christian Faith
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Samuel Johnson – Christianity
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
