Bruce L. Shelley Quotes

#1. Reason, said Butler, provides no complete system of knowledge, and in ordinary life it can offer us only probabilities.

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#2. The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

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#3. Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.

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#4. Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

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#5. What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.

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#6. Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

Bruce L. Shelley