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Without Education, We Are Weaker Economically. Without Economic Power, We Are Weaker In Terms Of National Security. No Great Military Power Has Ever Remained So Without Great Economic Power.

Like The Bible-a Document That Often Contradicts Itself And From Which One Can Construct Sharply Different Arguments-theology Is The Product Of Human Hands And Hearts.

Religious Belief, Like History Itself, Is A Story That Is Always Unfolding, Always Subject To Inquiry And Ripe For Questioning. For Without Doubt There Is No Faith.

Cynically But Accurately Put, Americans Oppose Public Intervention Or Regulation If It Helps Others, But Favor It If It Helps Them - Take Social Security, Disaster Relief, Public Works Projects, For Example.

If Heaven Is Understood More As God's Space On Earth Than As An Ethereal Region Apart From The Essential Reality We Know, Then What Happens On Earth Matters Even More Than We Think, For The Christian Life Becomes A Continuation Of The Unfolding Work Of Jesus, Who Will One Day Return To Set The World To Rights.