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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
- Tony Campolo
Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.
- Travis Thrasher
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
- Samuel Johnson
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
- Desmond Tutu
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
- John Piper
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
- Winston Churchill
It is supernaturalism, which in point of fact forms the point of controversy between Christianity and many panegyrists of modern culture.
- Herman Bavinck
The logic against them could not be more elementary. First, the unborn entity is an actual being, it is alive. If this were not so, there would be no need for an abortion. The very purpose of the abortion is to kill that which is alive. Second, this being is human. What else could it be? Feline? Canine? Bovine? As Congressman Henry Hyde once quipped, "No woman has ever given birth to a Golden Retriever." Human beings give birth to human beings.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
- Joseph Heller
The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
- Billy Sunday
There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.
- Ruth Westheimer
They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the national anthem.
- Humphrey Bogart