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“We have backed away from any vision of common ground; we have, instead, divided American life into a set of experiences—Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish; male and female, heterosexual and homosexual; Indian, Anglo American, African American, Mexican American, Asian American. For what were very good reasons, did we over-accent cultural differences?[214”
― Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future
― Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future
“Benjamin Franklin, that those who trade some of their liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. The wisdom of the founders never ceased to amaze him.”
― Full Black
― Full Black
“...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.”
― Full Black
― Full Black
“The US once held all its diverse components together on a declaration of “self-evident” truths about a government of/by/for the people. Today truth is not self-evident but self-constructed, fabricated from the moist finger in the winds of opinion research and social media.”
― Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future
― Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future
“In spite of all the unity-in-diversity rhetoric, this is a culture that increasingly prefers to live in tribal enclosures and economic cocoons. Victimology is a virus that has infected everything and everyone, including the church. Victimhood is never a victory. Every healed “victim” who goes on to heal others and not just therapize themselves can attest to one thing: No one gets better by being excused from carrying responsibility for the consequences of their choices and actions.”
― Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future
― Rings of Fire: Walking in Faith through a Volcanic Future
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