"In inter-Christian disputes, the name of the game is always to demonstrate that your own position is the truly Christian one while the opponent’s is “heretical”. But Christianity is very broad-based and admits of many more contradictory positions than Islam, for instance. Thus, you can find theological support for both pacifism and Holy War, for both social justice and obedience to authority, and so on. So in practice everyone is somebody else’s heretic on solid scriptural grounds. Whether you end up getting condemned as a heretic only depends on which doctrinal party is in power. ... It is precisely the apologist’s job to argue for the essential Christianity of what now counts as respectable and good, and to show the profound un-Christian nature of what now stands discredited or is held in contempt."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu sanity -- Koenraad Elst -- 2015
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heresy_in_Christianity
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Heresy in Christianity
1 quote on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Heresy in Christianity →
Related Quotes
"When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are…"
"The next major figure in the Bible is Abraham, the spiritual ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Abraham has a…"
"For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness…"
"When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are…"
"Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; b…"
"Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could e…"
"(In response to the words of an angel: "Flee to the mountains, lest you be swept away!") So it came to pass, when the…"
"And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they marri…"
"Blessings are on the head of the righteous, But violence covers the mouth of the wicked."
"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did loo…"