Carol P. Christ Quotes

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

...I have no resentment towards the man. If society were so constituted as to allow every man, woman and child to lead a normal life there would be no violence in this world. It fills me with horror to think the brutal acts done in the name of government. Every act of violence finds its echo in another act of violence. The policeman's club breeds criminals.

To arrive at the truth in all things, we ought always to be ready to believe that what seems to us white is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it.

Abolish lynching

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

We do not yet have justice, equal and practical, for the poor, for the members of minority groups, for the criminally accused, for the displaced persons of the technological revolution, for alienated youth, for the urban masses, for the unrepresented consumer – for all … who do not partake of the abundance of American life.

I wonder that a prophet doesn’t laugh whenever he sees another prophet.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

We want no black Ireland in America. We want no aggrieved class in America.

Because market forces and institutions are ethically indifferent, they require a deliberative, communal intelligence to prevent extreme injustice.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

White folks don't want peace; they want quiet. The price you pay for peace is justice.

Those who are privileged have little regard for history.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

It was not, as I have said, that we attacked religious fundamentalists, but that they felt themselves obliged to attack us. For the attempt to lead the moral life, or even to try to lead a better moral life, without first accepting religious dogmas was to their way of thinking monstrous.

For the urban poor the police are those that arrest you. In almost any slum there is a vast conspiracy against the forces of law and order.

If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.

The Western capitalist system is sunk to its neck in human problems. Despite the copious wealth that it has at its disposal, it is completely incapable of establishing social justice.

The more we examine the actual course of affairs, the more we are amazed at the unnecessary suffering that has been inflicted upon the people. No generalities about natural law or inevitable development can blind us to the fact, that the progress in which we believe has been won at the expense of much injustice and wrong, which was not inevitable.

A culture that generates more backwardness with every generation.

Many of the ideas that accompany privilege talk, if implemented, would wreak havoc on human wellbeing. If people truly acknowledged their privilege, they would show a greater concern for the forces behind it, which permit them to lead long, healthy, educated, leisure-filled lives, all the while incessantly complaining about the unadulterated evils of modern civilization.

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.