“If our Christmas is going to be all about getting upset at people trying to take away Christmas, isn’t that silly too?”
Jonathan Morris
The Catholic priest was speaking on “Fox & Friends” about the “war on Christmas.” (RNS)
“What we aspire to as Anglicans is not to be a federation of loosely connected and ra-ther distant relatives who sometimes send Christmas cards to each other.”
Rowan Williams
The retiring archbishop of Canterbury was writing in his final Advent letter to the leading archbishops of the Anglican Communion. (RNS)
“… [Y]ou’ve got the carcasses of dinosaurs frozen in time out in the Dakotas. They’re out there. So, there was a time when these giant reptiles were on the Earth and it was before the time of the Bible. So, don’t try and cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years. That’s not the Bible.”
Pat Robertson
The religious broadcaster was answering a viewer’s question on his “700 Club” program about whether the Earth was created 6,000 years ago, as many creationists believe. (RNS)
“Heaven is really swinging now — and not necessarily in a common meter, for its latest arrival was a most uncommon man.”
J. Reilly Lewis
The music director of the Cathedral Choral Society in Washington was commenting on the death of jazz musician Dave Brubeck. (RNS)