Elaine Pagels

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.