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"notice, those giants never defeated Israel. They never
had the chance, because Israel beat herself. With the bludgeon
of pessimism. With the club of faithlessness.
And so the people retreated from their promises to wander in
the wilderness for forty years (Numbers 14:32-35).
All because of the giants."

Luther's "Liber Vagatorum" and it's impacts on the approach to the poor in Western civilization: "every change in the social welfare system in the Westsince 1600 has simply been a development of this "Luther-esque"presupposition: The prerequisites for relief eligibility are to be secular, not covenantal"

"Biblical faith is progressive. Humanism is conservative, whether left or right, whether liberal or traditional. The Biblical faith constantly presses for advance. It breaks old wineskins (Luke 5:37-38). Humanism constantly presses for stabilization. It relies on old broken cisterns (Jeremiah 2:13).
The reason is simple. Biblical faith is innately optimistic.Humanism is innately pessimistic."

"Her garbled dissertation ran from the genius of Mozart to the hazards of Mediterranean fruit flies, from the liberal bias of Dan Rather to the parasitic fleas carried by Atlantic gulls. In sum- mary she gazed into the sky, grey and mottled like cigar ash, and said, "But to have a place to sleep, warm and dry. That's the on- liest thing. That an' havin' someone to love who'll love you back. That'd be even onlier." "