It is no surprise that when today’s affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms – what’s amazing is how far the churches are going to oblige.
Church Quotes
Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we’re just making him madder and madder. (Homer Simpson)
To the Church I once went, but I grieved and I sorrowed; for the season was Lent, and the sermon as borrowed.
One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
The difference between going to church and a baseball game is that at church, you sing out “Stand Up for Jesus,” while at a baseball game you shout “Siddown, for Chrissakes!”
Discovering the Church is apt to be a slow procedure but it can take place if you have a free mind and no vested interest in disbelief.
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
The building of a “skyscraper church” would seem to be a move in the right direction.
The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint. In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
