He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to
I do think that the U. S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.
The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U. S.
There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But that's not the legal basis on which we're framed. So the flourishing of religion, of religious diversity, is really built into who we are.
There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.
My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith as a Christian, and the way in which I think about the faith and life of others who are very different than myself. That mutuality of regard is how we deal with difference and diversity in the world.
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.
It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.
It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.