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"It would be easy to argue on the basis of the teachings of Jesus that “Christian capitalist” is an oxymoron."
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"The most important function in the Bush presidency was the spreading of fear."
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Robert S. McElvaine
Robert S. McElvaine
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Robert S. McElvaine is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and the author of eight books and the editor of three. He is considered a historian of the Great Depression.. McElvaine is also known for his work on the centrality of misperceptions of differences and inequality between the sexes in the unfold
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"Science follows evidence; political science follows opinion; religious science follows myth and is therefore no science at all."
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"News Flash: Self-indulgence is not what Jesus taught."
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"Here is the fundamental message of the fun-damentalists: Say “Jesus” and then you don’t have to do Jesus."
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"Both the Christian Right and the Muslim Right condemn freedom, seek to impose rules from their highly selective reading of their holy book on everyone, believe in theocracy, want to keep women subordinated, generally oppose the modern world, believe killing “infidels” is part of God’s plan—the list of agreement goes on and on. About the only things they disagree on are what name to call the God they distort and who the infidels are."
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"A wonderful archbishop of Canterbury once said that it is a mistake to believe that God is chiefly, or even mainly, concerned with religion."
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