Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. – Tony Campolo
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. – Tony Campolo
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo
Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. – Tony Campolo