“What serious, let alone decent religiously conscious person — left or right, conservative or liberal — would knowingly work to enrich this dreadful man who will go down in history as the epitome of everything that all religion says it’s against: lies, greed, criminality and sheer disgusting exploitation of the defenseless that would shame a sewer rat?”
Frank Schaeffer
The evangelist was calling on Christian writers not to be published by Zondervan, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, under fire in a phone hacking scandal. He was quoted by RNS.
“I had thought about bringing a message on Hell tonight, but if you were out in the heat today, you’ve already had enough of that.”
Rolen Bailey
The retired director of missions for the Roanoke Valley (Va.) Baptist Association was preaching in Culpeper, Va., during an extreme heat wave on the East Coast in July.
“The issue is this: if faith is becoming a badge of identity and it says: ‘I am what I am in opposition to you,’ then that’s when religion is dangerous. If, on the other hand, faith becomes a humanizing and civilizing set of values it can play an important role in making globalization work.”
Tony Blair
The former British prime minister was discussing his involvement in focusing on the interaction between faith and globalization. He was quoted by Sydney’s The Australian.