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The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

Christians are being systematically exterminated.