Thus, support for “family values” melds into support for all things Republican, including a hawkish foreign policy, and all somehow get wrapped in scripture. It also melds into an opposition to Democrats so intense that the Christian faith
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“To most people”
― The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin
― The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin
“However…(my brother Howard, who’s in real estate, says nobody ever heard a piece of good news that began with however)…”
― The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin
― The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin
“Therefore to fully understand we must expand it: “God is not—but ought to be.” “God is not—yet.” Is this not the true content of our bereavement?”
― Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation
― Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation
“There is and can be no greater offense to the way all of us now manage our lives, than the forgiveness of sins. Also the Church has much difficulty with it. On the one hand, if we are all ok in any case, there is nothing to forgive; “acceptance” is not the same as “forgiveness.” “Accept yourself as you are” is not the same as “I forgive you,” and assuredly not as “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, I absolve you of your sin.” In the mainline churches, and it seems increasingly in the evangelical churches, forgiveness is taken for a matter of course; but then it is not forgiveness.”
― Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation
― Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation
“Morality is all right as far as it goes, but it’s got two big drawbacks. One is that as a way of helping the world get its act together it stinks, because the number of truly moral people is so close to zero it’d make you cry. But the second thing is that when all the semi-moral types start cheering for morality, you better duck. Ninety-nine percent of the time they end up using it like a stick to beat up on somebody.”
― The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin
― The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin
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