The Age of Paradise Quotes

“Simply put, humanists and the nihilists that followed them ceased to see the world’s misalignment with the kingdom of heaven as their own fault and instead blamed it on others.”
― John Strickland, The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium

“traditional Christianity from the beginning universally and consistently forbade all forms of abortion and infanticide. Though New Testament scripture recorded no direct ban on the practices, the Church’s broader tradition did. It appeared in innumerable statements beginning as early as the second-century Didache. There was no ambiguity about the position of early Christians on this issue. Hippolytus, Athenagoras, Minucius Felix, and of course the moral firebrand Tertullian all provided an explicit witness to the Church’s tradition.”
― John Strickland, The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium

“Seneca, the great stoic authority on virtue, wrote about the social benefit of killing deformed and unwanted children, grouping it with the elimination of rabid dogs.”
― John Strickland, The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium