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Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

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Tony Campolo
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: February 25
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Philadelphia
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Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.
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If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
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Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
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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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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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Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
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In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
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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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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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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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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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A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.
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President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
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I've got some repenting to do. I doubt, however, that those who have wedded Christianity with laissez-faire capitalism will see things this way. I can just hear them saying, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
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Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
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While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
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