Bill Moyers Quotes About Theology
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How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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