Terry Eagleton Quotes

The Form Of Life Jesus Offers His Followers Is Not One Of Social Integration But A Scandal To The Priestly And Political Establishment. It Is A Question Of Being Homeless, Propertyless, Peripatetic, Celibate, Socially Marginal, Disdainful Of Kinsfolk, Averse To Material Possessions, A Friend Of Outcasts And Pariahs, A Thorn In The Side Of The Establishment And A Scourge Of The Rich And Powerful. Indeed, Pierre Bayle Points To This Fact As An Argument Against The Political Necessity Of Religious Faith. Christianity, He Remarks, Is No Basis For Civil Order, Since Jesus Proclaims That He Has Come To Pitch Society Into Turmoil.47

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