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“I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.”

— V. Y. Mudimbe

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“Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an “other” among others.”

“A liberation movement is doomed once it stops to haggle over nuances of good and evil.”

“Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value.”

“Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?”

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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