I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.'
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.
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