“As evenly divided as the US electorate is, there are not just two teams.”
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“There are many different groups with various interests. Sometimes those interests coincide but not for the same reasons.” - P&D
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“There are many different groups with various interests. Sometimes those interests coincide but not for the same reasons.” - P&D
“The perverse effect of the Freedom Caucus…has been to push policy to the left. By refusing to compromise and therefore making it impossible for the House to act, they often empower the Democratic Senate to wield greater power.” - Law & Liberty
“What we know for sure is that human anger does not end well. It does not bring about justice or righteousness. It does not make for a better world.” - Michael Brown
“Most Americans say ‘when I am really confident in a belief, there is very little chance that belief is wrong’ (68% agree strongly + somewhat). Since 2015, there has been a 24-point jump in agreement (from 44%).” - Barna
“The disproportionate secularization of white Democrats represents a danger for the Democratic Party, for the country, and for American religion. The danger for the Democrats is clear. America may be more secular than it’s been in generations, but it is still a quite religious country.” - David French
“The post-Babel situation is, according to Haidt, a disaster and the ‘best metaphor he has encountered’ for ‘the fractured country we now inhabit.’ Haidt imagines the post-Babel world to be one in which people wandered amid the ruins of the destroyed city ‘unable to communicate, condemned to mutual incomprehension.’” - Law & Liberty
Adams’ warned that our level of freedom depends on a high level of self-restraint by the citizens. French: “The response to John Adams’s warning is not to arm the government with more power but to equip citizens with more virtue. And how do we do that?” - David French
“…Michael Horton’s latest book, Recovering Our Sanity: How the Fear of God Conquers the Fears that Divide Us… argues that we can only conquer the wrong kinds of fear by embracing the right kind of fear, and that’s what he means by sanity.” - TGC
“I want to define antithesis and common grace in their historical context to show that these concepts, when held together, help us to maintain a Scriptural balance. They help us remember that the devil is our enemy (not humanity) ” - Wyatt Graham
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