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" It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. "
Tony Campolo
God
People
Enthusiasm
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" 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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" A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school. "
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" Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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People
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" 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
" I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages. "
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Want
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" We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do. "
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Business
Tell
People
" In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood. "
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" I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice. "
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Think
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" In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! "
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Time
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" In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion. "
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" Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. "
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" Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. "
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" The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. "
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" To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. "
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" Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. "
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" Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?' "
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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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