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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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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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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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When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.
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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
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The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.
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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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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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So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.
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