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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. "
Tony Campolo
Common
Again
Going
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" Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian. "
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Confuse
Christian
Being
" Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible? "
Tony Campolo
Look
Bible
Take
" Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. "
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Spread
Lies
Internet
" I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice. "
Tony Campolo
Time
Think
Justice
" 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. "
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Problem
Political
Face
" The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. "
Tony Campolo
Scripture
Judgment
Nations
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
You
Respect
Job
" My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians. "
Tony Campolo
Will
God
Nation
" When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. "
Tony Campolo
Ashamed
Evil
Islam
" While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does. "
Tony Campolo
Government
Money
Admit
" If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it. "
Tony Campolo
Job
Money
Name
" Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same. "
Tony Campolo
Help
I Am
Am
" A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic. "
Tony Campolo
Career
Speaker
Public
" Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving. "
Tony Campolo
Aware
Only
Jesus
" In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! "
Tony Campolo
Past
Time
Support
" I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life. "
Tony Campolo
Life
God
Death
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
Men
Place
School
" As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. "
Tony Campolo
Depression
Face
Us
" Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?' "
Tony Campolo
Ask
God
People
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
Influence
Political
Communication
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
Political Party
Party
Political
" But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States? "
Tony Campolo
Man
Same
Woman
" Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. "
Tony Campolo
Faith
Doing
Culture
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
Freedom
Women
Stand Up
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
God
Good
Good Person
" 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
Serious
Up
Questions
" I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. "
Tony Campolo
Serve
University
Professor
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
Body
Christian
New
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
Christian
Own
Why
" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "
Tony Campolo
Wisdom
Wealth
Together