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Friday 26th of April 2024

Christian right Five years ago, many evangelical voters still felt distaste for Mr Trump's libertine personality. They quickly learned he was the kind of pugilist they wanted. The likely Supreme Court confirmation next week of Amy Coney Barrett, and that of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch before her are testaments to that. America's Christian right has embraced its inner Vladimir Lenin – the end justifies the means. Edward Luce, Financial Times, October 15, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Christianity According to a recent Pew Research poll,  60 percent of Americans believe the country was founded to be a Christian nation, and nearly half (including 81 percent of white evangelicals) think it should be one today. Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books, February 8, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Christianity Better sleep wiih a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Ishmael in Moby Dick © 2022 Kwiple.com
Christianity Camels and Christians receive their burdens kneeling. Ambrose Bierce © 2015 Kwiple.com
Christianity Donald Trump's leaked remarks to evangelical leaders last month contained a telling choice of possessive pronoun: “I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote.” Another Republican president might have referred to “our people”. This one does not feign membership of the flock. He tables an earthly bargain: it is me, or a Democrat; Brett Kavanaugh, or a liberal justice, on the US Supreme Court. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Christianity Evangelism created a safe harbor for white people who wanted to be counted as Christian without having to accept what ecumenical leaders said were the  social obligations demanded by the gospel, especially the imperative to extend civil equaliiy to nonwhites. David A. Hollinger, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular © 2023 Kwiple.com
Christianity The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. Malcolm X, in Autobiography of Malcolm X  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Christianity He began with a quotation to the effect that, when the Christian arrived in Africa, he had the Bible and the African had the land; but that, before long, the African had the Bible and the Christian had the land. James Baldwin, quoting a Jamaican priest, “Princes and Powers” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Christianity There is a bit of Protestant folklore that sheds light on the social position of the various churches. A Methodist, it was said, is a Baptist who wears shoes; a Presbyterian is a Methodist who has gone to college; and an Episopalian is a Presbyterian who lives off his investments. Richard Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life © 2021 Kwiple.com
Christianity Two Corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ballgame. … Is that the one you like? Donald Trump, to students at evangelical Liberty University, where the verse is etched on a building © 2016 Kwiple.com
Christianity What has happened to American Christianity is there is this afterglow of what a candidate is supposed to represent. It is no longer moral character. It is policy positions on things that bother evangelicals. Wayne Flynt, reflecting on the overwhelming support among evangelicals for Trump in 2016  © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Christianity You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? Adolf Hitler © 2015 Kwiple.com