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It would be easy to argue on the basis of the teachings of Jesus that “Christian capitalist” is an oxymoron.

— Robert S. McElvaine Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

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They are so certain that they know God’s mind because they equate their own minds with that of God.

Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

A wonderful archbishop of Canterbury once said that it is a mistake to believe that God is chiefly, or even mainly, concerned with religion.

Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.

Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

Here is the fundamental message of the fun-damentalists: Say “Jesus” and then you don’t have to do Jesus.

Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

The most important function in the Bush presidency was the spreading of fear.

Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America (2008)

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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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