I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.
I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.
It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.
The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
