Post Modern Christianity Quotes

“If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath.”
― David Dark

“Feeling offended is invigorating. Feeling offended is a reassuring sensation. It's easier than asking ourselves if the redeeming love of God is evident in the way we communicate with people.”
― David Dark, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything: Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned?

“What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.”
― David Dark

“Leucate. Same parish priest, same church. The great local innovation is Communion under the two species. If the faithful are reluctant to drink from the same chalice, God will not hold it against them. They can always dip their host in the priest's wine. All this new ritual passes over the heads of the general run of worshippers.
Homily on the Covenant struck with Moses, then sealed in the blood of Christ, and then in the Eucharist. Only Christ washes away spiritual stains. Silence falls.
There then enters a person who could well be the village whore - a blonde creature in a pale green miniskirt and with a boldly plunging neckline. She slips quietly into the Lady Chapel, lights a candle for the Virgin
Mary, then prostrates herself in prayer in a dark side-chapel before leaving again unseen.
The Holy Covenant remains the one between the people of the village.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004