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" I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions. "
Tony Campolo
Government
Business
Legal
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" After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. "
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" If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. "
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" The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve. "
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" There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. "
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Nature
Doubt
" As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. "
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Face
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" If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? "
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Marriage
" So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are. "
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" What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party. "
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Party
Political
" While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. "
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Prove
Why
Support
" It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp. "
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Day
Moving
Matters
" Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. "
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Change
Community
Stand
" Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways. "
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Guilt
People
Feel
" Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed. "
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I Can
Dangerous
I Am
" There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges. "
Tony Campolo
New
Gift
Men
" It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past. "
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Just
Future
Say
" The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor. "
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Poor
Why
Reason
" An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. "
Tony Campolo
God
Message
View
" In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. "
Tony Campolo
Spiritual
Prayer
Depression
" Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time. "
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I Believe
Time
Believe
" Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ. "
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Most
Way
Bible
" In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living. "
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Body
Christian
New
" I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. "
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Serve
University
Professor
" Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? "
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Time
God
Religion
" There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations. "
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Christian
Own
Why
" And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons. "
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Serious
Up
Questions
" President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? "
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Marriage
Woman
Man
" When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. "
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Listen
Now
You
" Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. "
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Better
Religion
American
" The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. "
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Scripture
Judgment
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