“Dear 1962, This is The Future speaking. You spent a lot of time thinking about me lately. I’m touched. Let me tell you what’s happened …”
“I told myself, ‘If you can only get to the stove and pick up one of the iron skillets, you might be able to knock him in the head and grab the gun.'”
“Who puts a pit full of tigers in the softball diamond?”
“Are people really so unfamiliar with Calvinism that they don’t expect a Calvinist to say such things? Well, most Calvinists don’t say them so publicly. But many Calvinists have believed them and said them more quietly and discretely for a long time.”
“After all, the question ‘Who sinned, that this man was born blind?’ is not a challenge to the status quo, but a blank acceptance of it.”
“Many of us located in North American evangelicalism will find that the flattened, stunted ‘rationalism’ of Atheism 1.0 is exactly how we ‘do’ religion.”
“We get closer to the good news itself when we talk about what God has done in Christ himself, than we get when we talk about how that Christ event comes to benefit us.”
“If you have not found anything worth living for, anything valuable and precious in the life you now live, then to imagine that somehow another life will resolve all the problems and answer all the questions seems misguided.”
“The show was fascinating, enlightening and damn depressing.”
“If you’ve got a youth group with 50 people in it you’ve got multiple kids, whether out or not, who are gay.”
“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. … This war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.”
“Atheists owe [Harold] Camping a debt of gratitude.”
“Today, students, we will consider the meaning and extent of religious liberty in our society by way of The Case of the Israeli Postal Refusniks.”
“The best they can do is try to make mountains of racial resentment out of the most innocuous molehills.”
“Can we call them racist, misogynist bigots now?”
“He had a gun, and Trayvon had Skittles.”
“The politics of fear and anger have made us think that these problems are not our problems.”
“People who wrap themselves in a ‘pro-life’ cloak act as though America would be better off if we’d been aborted.”
“Fifty million babies. You know where they all are? All those babies on the crystal sea before God. I can see them out there on the sea. ‘Cootchie Coo!'”
“We have the cost-saving means to promote and improve women’s health. Providing access to contraception is about that and nothing else. Denying it is a disservice to women, prudent medical care, and individual and religious freedom.”
“Thanks to the quick action of Planned Parenthood, I am here to tell you about this.”
“Europe declared war on Keynes, and Keynes is winning.”
“$3,000 for cheesecake lollipops”
“Good people don’t need good memories.”
“Anyone else see the irony of a group whose symbol is a mask of Guy Fawkes attacking the Catholic Church for its crimes?”
“Despite being pinned down by the steel beams, Decker covered her two children a second time with the comforter.”
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