Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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.
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
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