'Traditionally the hallowed language of religion is designed to mystify, to intimidate, to incriminate, to overwhelm, and to induce a mood of guilt and moral peril. A recognized trait of religions is encouraging a superstitious tendency in their followers to like best what they understand least. That made sincerity in the religious life an elusive commodity.
In his plain use of religious discourse, however, Jesus departed radically from that tradition.'
Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel beyond the West, p.100.
