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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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John Calvin Thomas
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To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.
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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.
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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
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The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
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We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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