Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire. Cal Thomas More Quotes by Cal Thomas More Quotes From Cal Thomas People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them. Cal Thomas adversity running people To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect. Cal Thomas religious christian views Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country? Cal Thomas morality power country I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups. Cal Thomas religious christian country Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice. Cal Thomas religious practice christian Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses. Cal Thomas successful self heart When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters. Cal Thomas daughter law talking Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent. Cal Thomas government parent people It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program. Cal Thomas government heart blood Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?" Cal Thomas atheism might believe We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts. Cal Thomas politics political evil But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. Cal Thomas prosperity soul heart No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government. Cal Thomas government power people When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know people who have refused to feast on the money tree. They live simply, within their means, and seem far more content than those who are trying to horde their wealth while clinging to the ladder of 'success,' terrified to let go. That isn't real living. The Puritans rightly saw that as covetousness. Cal Thomas real letting-go mean The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'. Cal Thomas government reading art So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture. Cal Thomas retreat energy christian Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated. Cal Thomas defeated evil Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood. Cal Thomas giving-up sarcastic humorous In a world that has gone global, we no longer have a choice. If we don't export freedom, we risk importing the viruses which have corrupted other nations. ... Some critics complained that President Bush was arrogant when he suggested America can and should export freedom to other countries. This implies the people of unfree countries may not wish to be free. Which is the greater arrogance? Cal Thomas country america people Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech. Cal Thomas speech should views
