For that decay Christianity seems to have been in no way responsible.
Not exact matches
This
decay is internal as well as external,
for while the civic project has been a spectacular failure at Christianizing liberalism, it has been wildly successful at liberalizing
Christianity.
For nothing less than an all - consuming quest for God, one that lays claim to heart, soul, and mind, will suffice to save Christianity from this decaying civilization — or this civilization from itse
For nothing less than an all - consuming quest
for God, one that lays claim to heart, soul, and mind, will suffice to save Christianity from this decaying civilization — or this civilization from itse
for God, one that lays claim to heart, soul, and mind, will suffice to save
Christianity from this
decaying civilization — or this civilization from itself.
Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is
decayed among the nations, and when
Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim
for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.
So much in
Christianity had me seeing these kinds of things only in the light of demons and evil and satan, that when I started reading and understanding more (when I was in junior high school) and comprehending the concept of the birth - life - death - rebirth cycles, and how there needs to be death and
decay for their to be birth and growth... it really made a huge impression on how I saw the world.
Even in the Easter affirmation of the Resurrection of Jesus, so important
for Christianity, we can now point to no firm historical evidence to show that there occurred there a miracle which involved suspension or reversal of natural laws — in this case, the normal processes of
decay into which the physical body enters after the point of death.