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" To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. "
Tony Campolo
Open-Minded
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Expect
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! "
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" Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. "
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" 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. "
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" Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House. "
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" 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. "
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Men
" The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment. "
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" Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian. "
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Confuse
Christian
Being
" Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. "
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" Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. "
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Out
Control
" Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. "
Tony Campolo
Them
Development
Need
" Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives. "
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White
White House
House
" Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. "
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Lies
Internet
" 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
" 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. "
Tony Campolo
Guilt
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Feel
" It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past. "
Tony Campolo
Just
Future
Say
" In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. "
Tony Campolo
Spiritual
Prayer
Depression
" 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
" My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work. "
Tony Campolo
Citizen
Good
Government
" 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
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" Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' "
Tony Campolo
Republican
Values
Family
" 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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Depression
Face
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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
Me
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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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Mind
Depression
Us
" 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. "
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Aware
Only
Jesus
" Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. "
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More
Young
Voting
" 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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Short
Abortion
" Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. "
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Last
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" I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country. "
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