These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing people do immoral things simply because he likes immoral things. Doubtful; Satan likes for people to do immoral things so that he can blame them for doing immoral things. The Father of Lies laughs not with his teammates, but at them.

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.