Bill McKibben Quotes

Here Is A Statistic That Does Matter: Three Quarters Of Americans Believe The Bible Teaches That "God Helps Those Who Help Themselves." That Is, Three Out Of Four Americans Believe That This Uber-American Idea, A Notion At The Core Of Our Current Individualist Politics And Culture, Which Was In Fact Uttered By Ben Franklin, Actually Appears In Holy Scripture. The Thing Is, Not Only Is Franklin's Wisdom Not Biblical; It's Counter-biblical. Few Ideas Could Be Further From The Gospel Message, With Its Radical Summons To Love Of Neighbor. On This Essential Matter, Most Americans - Most American Christians - Are Simply Wrong, As If 75 Percent Of American Scientists Believed That Newton Proved Gravity Causes Apples To Fly Up.

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