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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

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Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

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As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

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Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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