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Tony Campolo

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : February 25, 1935

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

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The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

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When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

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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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Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.

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Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

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As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

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Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

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The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.

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I've got some repenting to do.

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Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.

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I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

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Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

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What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

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