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" 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, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family. "

Tony Campolo

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" So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. "

Tony Campolo

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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? "

" Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church. "

" The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. "

" In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. "

" The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media. "

" Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives. "

" Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. "

Tony Campolo

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" Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. "

" The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again. "

" I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. "

" I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion. "

" When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes. "

" I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems. "

" Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. "

" An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. "

" Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists. "

" A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic. "

" 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. "

" Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. "

" I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. "

" It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. "

" From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. "

" 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. "

" What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tony Campolo

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" The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. "

" 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. "