“Faith is not about certainty; it is about vulnerability.”
“Love isn’t something that needs to be fixed or healed or redeemed. It’s already the highest law.”
“Without any more distinction of Colour, Nation, Language, Sexe, Condition, all may bee One in him that is One, and onely blessed for ever.”
“The Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.”
“When your position is that the Bible (and your highly questionable interpretation of same) is a ‘manufacturer’s handbook for how to run all of public policy and everything in society,’ any distinction between religion and politics has obviously been obliterated.”
“The biggest problem with David Barton is not bad history or proof-texting. The biggest problem is his version of Civil Religion, wherein the nation displaces the church, and America emerges as the new Israel with whom God has a special covenant.”
“These monsters are an important part of who we are and, by the way, are quite a bit more terrifying than the thing you only thought lived under your bed when you were a kid.”
“Discovering that these promises, that Jesus makes us happy all the time and that everything in the Bible is always exactly right, are empty and false nearly destroyed my faith. I cannot allow these ideas to infect and destroy my children.”
“Many would recognize evangelicals for their anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-family stances today.”
“Being a pro-choice evangelical is a bit niche, isn’t it?”
“Being gay for a year saved my faith.”
“So it’s somewhat shocking to find all of that turned on its head in your lifetime.”
“We feel the bishops are abusing their power in attempting to direct Catholics on how to vote on this civil matter and impose their position on all citizens, Catholic and non-Catholic.”
“If you ask me to respect your faith, your beliefs, then all I ask is that you do the same for everyone else.”
“The only time you need to worry about what’s in your neighbor’s bowl is if you’re checking to make sure they have enough.”
“But even the good are not really good, just like you and me.”
“As we laid our baby girl down for a nap in her crib, Clinton declared then and there that Miss Coco Peru would forever be Elizabeth’s fairy godmother.”
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