" The Christian view of human nature is wise precisely because it is so very extreme: it sees humanity, at once, as an image of
the divine, fashioned for infinite love and imperishable glory, and as an almost inexhaustible wellspring of vindictiveness, cupidity, and brutality. Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society. "

― David Bentley Hart , Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies