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"When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right."
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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her."
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"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."
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"Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years."
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"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
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"I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor."
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"When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic."
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"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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"I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city."
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"I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice."
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"I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God."
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"Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people."
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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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"If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be."
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"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."
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