“What was ridiculous about Christianity, from the perspective of a cultivated pagan, was not only its language – the crude style of the Gospels’ Greek resting on the barbarous otherness of Hebrew and Aramaic – but also its exaltation of divine humiliation and pain conjoined with an arrogant triumphalism.”

“What was ridiculous about Christianity, from the perspective of a cultivated pagan, was not only its language – the crude style of the Gospels’ Greek resting on the barbarous otherness of Hebrew and Aramaic – but also its exaltation of divine humiliation and pain conjoined with an arrogant triumphalism.”

— Stephen Greenblatt