From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
Tony CampoloI have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. My skepticism is due, in part, to the fact that the Bible says that the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:16-19). I have a hard time figuring how twenty-four hour days could have been measured before that.
Tony CampoloRelegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
Tony CampoloThe real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
Tony Campolo