April 12th, 2007

"Collaboration with power, whether Communist or not, is always ruinous for the church. If the church exists, if it is to have legitimacy in the eyes of the people, it must always stand erect as a counter-power to a political power."
- Jacques Ellul, "Lech Walesa and the Social Force of Christianity" (p 5)

"The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of "pluralism" amounts to theological nudism."
- Joseph Sobran "Pensees: Notes for the Reactionary of Tomorrow" National Review, Dec. 31, 1985 (p 48)

February 6th, 2007

"Fundamentally, in relation to personal liberty, the Constitution was aimed at restraint of the State. Today, in case after case relating to religious liberty, we encounter the bizarre presumption that it is the other way around; that the State is justified in whatever action, and that religion bears a great burden of proof to overcome that presumption."
- William Bentley Ball "Religious Liberty: The Constitutional Frontier"

"Pluralism has come to mean that everything is acceptable. This new concept of pluralism suddenly is everywhere. There is no right or wrong; it is just a matter of your personal preference."
- Francis Schaeffer "A Christian Manifesto" (p 46)