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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. "

Tony Campolo

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" Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. "

" When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? "

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

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

" 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. "

" If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. "

" It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past. "

" 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? "

" I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice. "

" 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. "

" That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved. "

" I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. "

" 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. "

" I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. "

" 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. "

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

" The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. "

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

" 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. "

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

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