The church is only the larval stage of the thwarted spiritual kingdom. [1]
Many of the great truths taught by Jesus were almost lost in these early compromises, but they yet slumber in this religion of paganized Christianity, which was in turn the Pauline version of the life and teachings of the Son of Man. [2]
The church, being an adjunct to society and the ally of politics, was doomed to share in the intellectual and spiritual decline of the so-called European “dark ages. In a spiritual sense, Christianity was hibernating. [3] Protestant reformation disrupted unity of Christianity. [4] It is futile to talk about a revival of primitive Christianity; we must go forward from where we find ourselves. [5]
Paganized and socialized Christianity stands in need of new contact with the uncompromised teachings of Jesus; it languishes for lack of a new vision of the Master’s life on earth. [6] The great tests of twentieth-century Christianity are materialism, mechanism, and secularism. [7]
If Christianity persists in neglecting its spiritual mission while it continues to busy itself with social and material problems, the spiritual renaissance must await the coming of new teachers. [8]
Christianity—the best of the religions of the twentieth century—is not only a religion about Jesus, but it is so largely one which men experience secondhand. [9] Christianity has dared to lower its ideals before the challenge of human greed, war-madness, and the lust for power. [10]
Christianity is threatened by slow death from formalism, overorganization, intellectualism, and other nonspiritual trends. The modern Christian church is not the brotherhood of dynamic believers expected by Jesus. [11]
Christianity had a lot of influence on Buddhism and Hinduism, but by the time they did it was already too Westernized. [12]
New and strange religions are only superficially accepted. This is what happened to a New Zealand tribe that nominally accepted Christianity but then crafted a new version based on their beliefs. [13]
- Church is institutionalized to spiritual barrenness. [25]
- Church is unconscious obstacle to real gospel. [26]
- Ecclesiasticism is at once and forever incompatible with that living faith. [27]
- Jesus never place emphasis upon struggle between soul and body. [28]
- Marriage which culminates in the home is indeed man’s most exalted institution, but it is essentially human; it should never have been called a sacrament. [29]
- Christianity is an extemporized religion, and therefore must it operate in low gear. [30]
- It is afraid that its unconsecrated, self-sufficient fellowship, its social respectability, and its selfish economic maladjustment will be exposed. [31]
- The gospel of Jesus became the gospel of ransom to purchase man back from the clutch of the devil. [32]
- Those who have come to venerate the divine and risen Christ should have overlooked the man—the valiant and courageous hero—Joshua ben Joseph. [33]
- There is no excuse for the involvement of the church in commerce and politics; such unholy alliances are a flagrant betrayal of the Master. [34]
- Christianity languishes for lack of new vision of Master’s life. [35]
- It has long since ceased to be the religion of Jesus, although it still valiantly portrays a beautiful religion about Jesus. [36]
- Because of overmuch false sentiment the beneficent minister of the underprivileged has unwisely perpetuated degenerate stocks. [37]
- It has seriously blundered in the attempt to put a miraculous interpretation on certain epochs of human history. [38]
- Throughout Middle Ages existed, alongside slumbering and secularized Christianity, a continuous stream of mysticism, a fantastic spiritual experience bordering on unreality and philosophically akin to pantheism. [39]
- Christianity persists in neglecting its spiritual mission while it continues to busy itself with social and material problems. [40]
- It has become so thoroughly Occidentalized that many non-European peoples very naturally look upon Christianity as a strange revelation of a strange God and for strangers. [41]
- The Pentateuch was incorporated into Christian theology, profoundly influencing it for a long time. [42]
- The Christian teachers perpetuated the belief in the fiat creation of the human race, and all this led directly to the formation of the hypothesis of a onetime golden age of utopian bliss. [43]
- Some fellow Jews of Jesus rejected him and conspired to bring about his ignominious death; but that in no way justifies the unjust hatred, nor condones the unfair attitude of mind, which so many professed Christians have maintained toward individual Jews for many centuries. [44]
- Notwithstanding the Master’s effort to free man from pigeonholed rituals, the Remembrance Supper was reduced to a set formula. [45]
- Christianity sects are pitiful subdivision of believers, a weakness to Oriental peoples. [46]
- Religion is now confronted by the challenge of a new age of scientific minds and materialistic tendencies. In this gigantic struggle between the secular and the spiritual, the religion of Jesus will eventually triumph. [47]
- Christians should not require already God-conscious men to reject their historic illuminated leaders. [48]
- Modern Christianity sponsor in excess the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization. [49]
- Christianity, today, has become a religion well adapted to the social, economic, and political mores of the white races. [50]
- It is the one shameful thing about the religion that presumed to take Jesus’ name that it lacked the moral courage to follow this noble example in its subsequent attitude toward women. [51]
The living Jesus is the only hope of a possible unification of Christianity. [52]
See also: UB 195:10.