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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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  Party, Blessing, Thinking

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• A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

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  Careers, Critics, Speakers

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• 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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  Creating, Church, Causes

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• But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

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  Blessed, Thinking, Government

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• I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

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  Punishment, Impossible, Sermons

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• If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

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  Government, Church, Sacred

  Tony Campolo (2010). “Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)”, p.97, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Thinking, Justice, United States

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• That a new humanity will be brought forth from this Christ consciousness in each person.

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  Christ Consciousness, Humanity, Persons

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• Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.

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  Spiritual, Odds, Islam

  Tony Campolo (2005). “Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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, Privilege, Spirit

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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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  Government, Doe, Wasted Time

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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  Biblical, Community, African American

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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.

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  Thinking, Abortion, Wade

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• When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

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  Government, Decision, Important

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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?

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  Children, Men, Iraq

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• I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.

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  Suggestions, Ignored, Can Do

  "The Growing Impossibility of Interfaith Dialogue" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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

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  Real, Party, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Christian, Spiritual, School

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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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  Evil, Doubt, Tragedy

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• I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

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  Christian, Sufi, Mystic

  Tony Campolo (2005). “Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Scripture, Doe, Hebrew

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• The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

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  Gay, Two, Issues

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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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  Support, Generations, Righteousness

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

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  America, People, Might

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• If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

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  Leadership, Real, Believe

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