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• Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

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  Flying, Essentials, Culture

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

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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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  Issues, Addresses, Scandal

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• 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.

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  Religious, Europe, Cities

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• 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.

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  Religious, Communication, Mean

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?

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  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

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  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

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  Religious, Strong, Speaks Out

  "Using the Church for Partisan Politics" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2007.

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

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  Having Fun, Groups, Christianity

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

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• Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

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  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

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  Advice, President, Bills

  "The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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• To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

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  Open Minded, Educator, Explanation

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

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  Believe, Views, Scripture

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

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  Government, White, House

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

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  Self, Development, Needs

  "Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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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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  University Professors, Ministers, Professors

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

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  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

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  Lying, Way, Internet

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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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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  Institutions, States, Should

  Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.68, Baker Books

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• Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

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  Way, Election, American Elections

  "Who Are Red Letter Christians?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. My skepticism is due, in part, to the fact that the Bible says that the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:16-19). I have a hard time figuring how twenty-four hour days could have been measured before that.

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  Christian, Believe, Hard Times

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• Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

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  Jesus, Issues, Faithful

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• One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat.

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  Jesus, Party, Married

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• If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

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  World, Care, Being Human

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• It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

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  Christian, Prayer, Couple

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• We don't have to give up trying to convert each other. What we have to do is show respect to one another. And to speak to each other with a sense that even if people don't convert, they are God's people, God loves them, and we do not make the judgment of who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. I think that what we all have to do is leave judgment up to God. The Muslim community is very evangelistic, however what Muslims will not do is condemn Jews and Christians to Hell if in fact they do not accept Islam.

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  Christian, Giving Up, Thinking

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