I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and TV and say incredible things.

It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched, miserable and sinful they are.

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.