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“We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.”

Quote by Pat Buchanan

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Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan

Pat Buchanan is an American political commentator and author, born on November 2, 1938. He served as the Assistant to the President for Communications under President Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush, and is known for his conservative political views. more

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“The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.”

“The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.”

“One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.”

“We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.”