"Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us."
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"Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end."
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"The last Christian died on a cross."
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"Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity."
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"When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God."
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"Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd."
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"Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights."
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"The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie"
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"However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself."
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"Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him."
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"When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates."
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"I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed."
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"Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity."
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"Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God."
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"The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been."
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"One compliment can keep me going for a whole month."
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"You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'"
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"The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents."
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"I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church."
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"You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing."
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