Quote: Inoculated with Christianity...

We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are
never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the
virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is
a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort--
disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease,
the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we
have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We
are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will
win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him,
provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make
too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary
ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning
enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real
faith that changes character and wins the world.

A. J. Gossip (1873-1954), From the Edge of the Crowd [1924]