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Aaron Weiss talking in general, bu could be applied t to the gun control debate: ."... what I see is overemphasis on holy talk and I don't see any holy action, so I've got to try and put feet to our prayers, I've got to try to put hands and fingers to language."

"...this brand of fundamentalist Christianity is the most hurtful possible world view-the most destructive to the soul. To use the name of Jesus in absolute, complete contradiction to the teachings of Jesus we would be ... better off just saying, `we want this oil; this economic status; to feel better about ourselves by saying this about homosexuals,' than to have violence and hatred in the name of God." Aaron Weiss

"Christians who are eighteen to twenty-four... have less problems with language because they've done a better job of delineating between their faith and the culture, and they recognize that a lot of the stuff that we call Christian is just cultural."

" ... for at least some people, common ground will never be possible because they don't object to specific ideas that can be reframed or adjusted. They object to Satan, whose bidding we are doing, and they won't negotiate with him either. We want to persuade them, reason with them, listen to them and accommodate them. They want to save us. It's not even the same playing field."