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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.

Tony Campolo

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
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When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
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My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.
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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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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
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I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
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There's nothing wrong with making a lot of money, there's something wrong with keeping it.
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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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It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
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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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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
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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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In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
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The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
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Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?
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I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
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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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I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
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