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Optimism Is A Matter Optics, Of Seeing What You Want To See And Not Seeing What You Don't Want To See. Hope, On The Other Hand, Is A Christian Virtue. It Is The Unblinking Acknowledgment Of All That Militates Against Hope, And The Unrelenting Refusal To Despair. We Have Not The Right To Despair, And, Finally, We Have Not The Reason To Despair

I Do Believe That Those Who Compare The Religious Right To The Nazis Have Fallen Victim To Polemical Heat Prostration.

We Shall Not Weary, We Shall Not Rest, As We Stand Guard At The Entrance Gates And The Exit Gates Of Life, And At Every Step Along Way Of Life, Bearing Witness In Word And Deed To The Dignity Of The Human Person-of Every Human Person.

Progress Without The Reasoned Freedom To Think And Act Is Regression To Slavery.

One Would Like To Believe That People Who Think Of Themselves As Devout Christians Would Also Behave In A Manner That Is In According With Christian Ethics. But Pastorally And Existentially, I Know That This Is Not The Case, And Never Has Been.