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...LIMITED-GOVERNMENT GOSPEL that now dominates both the minds of America's leaders and the nation's political discourse, one homily in particular has received the nodding assent of liberals and conservatives alike: government can't solve problems by "throwing money at them." Yet the same leaders who preach the impotence of federal dollars in the war on poverty and social inequality show remarkably little skepticism about the effectiveness of the dollar in winning military battles...
...PASTORS CHEATED when they rode onto the political scene in the Moral Majoritymobile--the Bible doesn't preach neo-conservative doorbell ringing. The Moral Majority, however, has something to offer that the Next Step-New Deal-Liberal-Progressive stance does not: Something to do. The Majority's syllogism works like this: Since following the Simple Plan is better than lying dormant, we should follow the Simple Plan. Since the Simple Plan has nothing to say about the handicaps, we should ignore them...
...Kennedy and Mondale both preach the same old-time Democratic religion, and therefore appeal to something of the same constituency-even though Kennedy may still possess a certain magic of political celebrity that transcends ideologies. Jonathan Moore, a moderate Republican who is head of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, believes that the first Democratic reaction to Carter's defeat will be a lament that the Georgian "ran as a Republican," that the party must regain its soul by reasserting itself as the champion of the poor and minorities, that it must turn...
...Moral Majority accept the liberal doctrine of toleration? Didn't Christ preach toleration? He sighs; you have "intellectualized" and "interpreted" the Bible again. "I cannot be tolerant and be a Christian too. Jesus pointed to the religious leaders of his day and said, 'You're a bunch of snakes and a bunch of hypocrites and whited sepulchres.' And that's the kind of religious leaders I have here in Medford. They will not take a position on these things. They're a bunch of crowd-pleasing, pink-laced, lily-livered do-gooders, and they've gotten that example from government...
...certain gladiatorial aspect to such an affair, but I shall not come clanking onto the stage in armor that evening. I would hope that I could come equipped with a certain amount of discretion, humor, wisdom, and avoid what some people say is a tendency on my part to preach and sermonize...