Sunday, November 3, 2013

Quote of the Day

What's so curious is that in this religion-inflicted country of ours, the same evangelicals, conservative Roman Catholics, and others who had been running around post-Roe insisting that America had a "Christian foundation" and demanding a "return to our heritage" and/or more recently trashing health care reform as "communist" and demanding the shutdown of the government in order to overturn this "communist" invention by a "non-American" president, ignored the fact that one great contribution of Christianity was a commitment to strong central government. For instance, this included church support for state-funded, or state-church-funded, charities, including hospitals, as early as the fourth century.

-- Frank Schaeffer, "Send the Bill for the Shutdown to the Religious Right"

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