Confronting Christianity

We can tell lies with literal words and speak the truth through metaphor.

The idea that Christianity is a diversity-resistant, white Western religion of privilege is utterly irreconcilable with the New Testament.

Values that many of us in the West today consider to be universal and independent of religious thought turn out not to have sprung from the ground during the Enlightenment but to have grown from the gradual spread and influence of Christian beliefs.

If we reduce Christian community to sexual relationships and the nuclear family, we are utterly failing to deliver on biblical ethics.

failing to recognize the figurative features with the biblical text is like taking a love poem to the grocery store and wondering why you can’t find all the items on its shelves.

Suffering is not an embarrassment to the Christian faith. It is the thread with which Christ’s name is stitched into our lives.

Christianity does not glorify violence. It humiliates it.

science cannot ground the belief that human beings should be valued equally.

while Christianity held a monopoly on Western culture, Western culture never held a monopoly on Christianity.