After all, it isn’t self-evident that people are equal — in fact, we’re not! Christianity says people are morally equal, but not in any other sense. (View Highlight)
The idea that human rights were waiting to be discovered is just as theological as Jesus Christ rising from the dead — both ideas require leaps of faith.
The difference between Christians and Humanists is that the former recognizes a belief in divinity requires leaps of faith, whereas the latter does not. (View Highlight)
In the 1520s, people didn’t realize they were living through the Reformation. By the 1580s, people started to recognize the full scale of the movement and began calling it the Reformation.
Today, people don’t realize we’re having a second Great Awakening. It’s possible that in 100 years time, historians will look back at this period, starting from the 1960s, and say it was a period as convulsive in the history of Christianity as the 1520s were. While the Great Awakening started in 2014 or so, the 60s was when the Christian movement started to mutate and become something not just parasitic to Christianity, but actively overtly hostile to it. (View Highlight)
