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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
Journalist
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Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
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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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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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Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.
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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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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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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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Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
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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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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?
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