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EthixBytes “I pray for a world in which none will be so poor, they have
nothing to give, and none so rich they have nothing to receive.” “The great contribution of Baptists has not been by
theologians, but by ethicists.” “Will [moral] values be used as wedges and weapons to divide
and destroy us, or as bridges to bring us together to find common ground by
moving to higher ground?” “Folks tend to forget that during our founding, it wasn’t
the atheists or the civil libertarians who were the most effective champions of
the First Amendment, but persecuted minorities such as Baptists who didn’t want
the established churches to impose their views.” “If you are not electing Christians [to public office], then
in essence you are going to legislate sin. . . . the separation of church and
state is a lie we have been told to keep religious people out of politics.”
“Our greatest fear is that politicians today are trying to
make use of Christianity for their own purposes. . . . They have forgotten
Jesus came not to save a country, but to save the entire human race.” “The insurance payout to the beneficiaries of an American
soldier who dies in the line of duty is $400,000, while a dead Iraqi civilian
is worth up to $2500 in condolence payments. For all the talk of Iraq being a
sovereign nation, foreign occupiers are the ones deciding what an Iraqi life is
worth.” “We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels. It
is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting, and there is a buildup of
carbon dioxide in the air.” “Why does the oil industry go back 25 years to one week in
1981 to compare today’s gas prices, which have increased 254% in the last 7.5
years?” “The richest 1% of Americans on average pay only 18% of
their income in federal taxes, with many corporate CEOs paying only 3-4%, while
the rest of us pay an average of 30% of our income in federal income taxes.”
“The average ‘super-rich’ family has an average annual
income of $9.2 million. They spend each year nearly $30,000 on alcohol;
$224,000 on hotels and resorts; $168,000 renting a villa; $147,000 on watches;
$117,000 on clothes; $248,000 on jewelry; $226,000 on cars and boats; $404,000
on yacht rentals; and $542,000 on home improvements.” “Agricultural subsidies in the West, which allocate to every
cow the equivalent of $2 per day, could make Africans living on $1 a day wish
they were cows.” “We have just learned from the news media that 50,000 Iraqis
have died in this war—a fact the Bush administration has kept from the public.’
“Today, tobacco accounts for one in five cancer deaths, or
1.4 million deaths each year. Tobacco alone is predicted to kill a billion
people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century.” “For every [Iraqi insurgent] that I kill, I create almost 10
more.” “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“The constitution says the president has two
choices: either sign the bill or veto it. And if you sign it you can’t have your
hand behind your back with your fingers crossed.”
“I have never heard a sermon from which I have not derived
some good, but there have been some near misses.” Updated Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
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