It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
It's true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of membership, of participation in the vast synchronised swim of institutions.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.