I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing perhaps around an altar.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and attracted me.

For us to think we can enjoy understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

But even in the Christian religion much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced.

As with the Christian religion the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

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.

The Christian religion though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

This is God's world not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs not non-Christians.

If then you are looking for the way by which you should go take Christ because He Himself is the way.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.

I like your Christ I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.