"To call Christ 'white' in a society where to be white is to be identified with oppressors identifies Christ as an oppressor. A white Christ undercuts Jesus's identification with the oppressed."    - Kelly Brown Douglas ; The Black Christ

"What brought about these changes? Why did Christians turn from a vision of paradise in this life to a focus on the Crucifixion and final judgment? How did images of terror, torture, and the desolation of the earth come to permeate the religious imagination of Western Christianity?"    - Rita Nakashima Brock & Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parkera ; Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire, p. 224