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"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."
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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"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."
"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."
"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
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"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways."
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
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