“Organized religion has been assuming that because it has a better product- namely, God- that it simply needs to open the doors and customers will line up. That assumption no longer holds.” –Leonard Sweet, The Gospel According to Starbucks, p. 5.
A funny thing happened on the way to post modern Christianity. B.B. Warfield (professor of theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921) insisted that Christianity is not defined by the subjective experiences of Christians but the objective validity of facts presented in the bible. William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience – 1902) however, [...]
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) identified himself as a Presbyterian, but he was also a deist. Is it possible to be a deist Christian, or a Christian deist? Franklin believed there was a little bit of good in every religion and so he gave to all kinds of church related fund raisers; schools, church buildings, orphanages, etc. [...]
The Germans saw some people as less than human and today some see the unborn as less than human. “Apart from God we cannot see that they are persons as well,” he said. “Love those that do not yet see that.” -Eric Metaxas.
“Years ago the religious right kidnapped Jesus. They blindfolded him, bound and gagged him and currently hold him in a windowless room in the church basement. They make him sign confessions that he hates homosexuals, opposes gun control, backs all of America’s military adventures, loves free market capitalism, loathes taxation and thinks the poor are [...]