Christians are not born but made. St Jerome
Of the estimated 6.8 billion people on planet Earth, on third or 2.2 billion are Christian. The Christian Deception
325 C.E. The first council of Nicaea ... The council was convened by the emperor Constantine I. ibid.
The word Christian can be found only three times in the entire Bible. ibid.
The word Christian began as a derogatory term. ibid.
It was created from ancient pagan concepts and mysteries. ibid.
Jesus is not the English equivalent or English translation of the Messiah’s true name. ibid.
Christian visions of hell depict a place of unspeakable torture. Gates of Hell
Even today the Christian Hell evokes vivid images of vicious punishment. ibid.
But is was Christianity that described the balance between sin and punishment in the most excruciating detail. And one Christian in particular was responsible. Dante’s epic description of Hell – The Inferno – offers an extremely lurid vision of its punishments. ibid.
The powerful but misguided esoteric movements of today such as Freemasonry and the Illuminati hold to the belief that the Jesus of Christianity is in reality a representation of the Sun or astrological personification, and that Christianity is a later distortion or forgery that plagiarised from previous cults. This is why you see so many attacks upon Christianity in our day. Keith Thompson, Where the Rabbit Hole Ends
I believe that Christianity’s basis is a personal relationship to Jesus Christ, rather than relationship to churches. Dr Ian Paisley
Most people already know that the timings of Easter and Christmas come from the pagan traditions. Origins of Christianity
The worship of a miracle-working, walking, talking godman who brings salvation was also the core of other ancient religions that began at least a thousand years before Jesus. ibid.
Many so-called Christian ideas belonged to earlier older Pagan faiths. ibid.
The origin of Christianity was the myths, legends, philosophies, prejudices, literature, superstitions, and primitive cosmology of ancient Western culture. Christianity was a product of its time and place. ibid.
Christianity is a product of its time and place; Christianity is an ancient Pagan religion. ibid.
It wasn’t until 325 A.D. that the idea of the Trinity became fixed. ibid.
How about other Christian versions of Christian origins? They were suppressed. Usually brutally. ibid.
Direct evidence of how Christianity began: there is none. ibid.
By the time our earliest written records of Christianity were created, Christianity had already splintered into several groups. ibid.
Doubtless the idea of Tartarus had a huge impact on the Christian ideal of Hell. Dr Marvin Mayer
Those who call it [Hell] Christian pornography may not be far from the mark. Dennis MacDonald, Claremont School of Theology
A Rockefeller-endowed survey, chaired by Harvard’s distinguished philosopher Professor W E Hocking, concluded that Christianity is merely the highest of the High Religions, a stage in the universal quest for ‘righteousness’, a precious component in the religion of the future that will represent the New Testament of every existing Faith and serve the soul of a coming common world culture. Edward Duff, World Council of Churches
They cannot believe that these people were real Christians. Why I am No Longer a Christian
You’re a Christian until something happens and then you’re not a Christian. ibid.
Creationism ... Nothing but bastardisation and butchery of biology ... In short Creationism: they’re lunacy. ibid.
What created God? ibid.
Human Beings have been around about a hundred thousand years. And for ninety-eight thousand years the mankind God in Heaven has sat around with his arms folded watching human beings die mostly of their teeth ... Two thousand years ago it decides for intervention. ibid.
The burden of proof ... What evidence is there? ... Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ibid.
There’s not a mention of antibiotics ... E=MC2 would have done. ibid.
They are nothing but a bunch of back-handed thugs. Agora 2009 starring Rachel Weisz & Max Minghella & Oscar Isaac & Sami Samir & Michael Lonsdale & Rupert Evans et al, director Alejandro Amenabar, Jews to Prefect of Christians
Your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or merciful than his predecessors. ibid. Hypatia to the Christians
Christian places for faith and devotion have been created in every conceivable size and shape. Art of Faith: Christianity, Sky Arts 2012
Justinian energetically promoted the orthodox Christian faith. ibid.
Durham’s heavy, thick-walled architecture with its sturdy columns and geometric decoration is identified by the historians as Romanesque. ibid.
Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres: One of Europe’s greatest Gothic cathedrals. ibid.
Height and light are what the Gothic style is all about. With thin walls and large windows made possible by flying buttresses outside and pointed vaulting inside. ibid.
Chartres: 2,600 square metres of glass. ibid.
St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol: in the west of England the medieval merchants of Bristol used their wealth to build a great and glorious church. ibid.
For Roman Catholics the very best church in Christendom in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. ibid.
By the fifteenth century the Russian Church had acquired a form of independence. ibid.
Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed, Moscow: built between 1555 and 1561 ... A riot of onion domes and painted stone. ibid.
Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary de Vence: Matisse designed the ceramic walls and floor, the stained glass, the murals, the furnishings and even the robes for the priests. ibid.
Chapel of St Ignatius, Seattle [Jesuit]: designer Stephen Holl. ibid.
2,000 years ago around the birth of Jesus a bloody revolt erupted in the Roman province of Judea. Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution I, PBS 2009
Jesus did not fade away thanks to a small band of Jews who held fast to their conviction that Jesus is the true messiah. ibid.
The world was about to see their God not Caesar rule humans everywhere. ibid.
A new movement inside Judaism – a Jesus movement. ibid.
If God’s kingdom was coming to Earth, it would come first to Jerusalem. ibid.
Converts were not high on Peter’s agenda at first. ibid.
Stephen was stoned to death. ibid.
By the mid-30s of the first century the followers of Jesus still numbered just a few hundred. ibid.
He [Paul] stayed two weeks with Peter. ibid.
Paul had been invited to help lead the Antioch Jesus movement by a man named Barnabas. ibid.
Year after year God’s kingdom failed to arrive. ibid.
Paul proceeded to proclaim his missionary message. ibid.
Paul was dragged from the city, stoned and left for dead. ibid.
Arguments over how to integrate gentiles would engulf Paul. ibid.
A few subjugated Jews dared to insist that the kingdom of God would soon eclipse the empire of Rome. Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution II: The Empire and the Kingdom
Claims about Jesus and his kingdom would have run headlong into imperial politics. ibid.
Peter’s escape was a pivotal moment. ibid.
A figure less known to the authorities took Peter’s place: it was James, the brother of Jesus. ibid.
Paul sought converts among the non-Jews ... His gentile mission soon fell under scrutiny by James and the leading Jesus followers back in Jerusalem. ibid.
Paul stated his case against circumcision for men like Titus. God didn’t restrict his kingdom to Jews. ibid.
The conflict over gentile converts was far from settled. ibid.