John Paul

“As with most things, context is everything. And in a religious context in which sin is rarely if ever mentioned (much less rebuked), the cross of Christ seems more a bug than a feature. The prevailing message is “live your best life now,” “become a better you,” and “think better, live better,” but the answer is no: God’s greatest pleasure isn’t our happiness. The Osteens and a handful of other prosperity gospel preachers have made this message their stock and trade. It is self-actualization masquerading as Christianity, and it resembles the spirituality of the New Age more than the spirituality of the Bible.”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth

“Consider the words of G. K. Chesterton: Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.6”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Gospel According to Satan: Eight Lies about God that Sound Like the Truth

“Study of the hierarchical, medieval Roman Catholic church will point out the danger in the modern ecclesiasticism that seems to be creeping into Protestantism. New sects will often be revealed as old heresies in a new guise. Christian Science can be understood better after a study of Gnosticism in the early church and the ideas of the Cathari in medieval times.”
― Earle E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries: A History of the Christian Church

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” The lame and the blind excepted, who could object?”
― David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions