Barry Cooper

“I am not fond of the word psychological.
There is no such thing as the psychological.
Let us say that one can improve the biography of
the person.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE”
― R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

“People do not reject the gospel primarily because they’re too thickheaded to get it. Unbelief grows out of other soils besides intellectual confusion. Instead, people reject the good news because they’re enslaved to other kinds of news. They’re in love with something unworthy of such devotion, and it won’t let them go.”
― Randy Newman, Questioning Evangelism

“As one of the consequences of the death of God, Friedrich Nietzsche foresaw that people could find themselves stuck in cycles of Christian theology with no way out. Specifically that people would inherit the concepts of guilt, sin and shame but would be without the means of redemption which the Christian religion also offered.”
― Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

“That is why our Churches are half empty and also why millions never darken a Church door. People are not fed. They are hungering and thirsting for the pure Gospel and they get pulpit essays and discussions of questions. They go away empty and disgusted and then they stay away.’ Time proved Moody right. Had clergy been in less of a hurry to trot out the latest undigested critical theory, the churches of America and Britain would not have sunk into the trough of the 1920s and 1930s.”
― John Charles Pollock, D. L. Moody: Moody without Sankey