Marcus J. Borg

Quotes

• “The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be ...”
• “This book might also be seen as “a Christian primer.” A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about learnin...”
• “The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Script...”
• “When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in...”
• “So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has...”
• “How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our...”
• “The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a com...”
• “The heaven-and-hell framework has four central elements: the afterlife, sin and forgiveness, Jesus’s dying for our sins,...”