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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

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While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

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I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

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What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

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Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

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Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: Unknown

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