Living in Light of Two Ages
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Monday, April 21, 2014 at 10:51AM 
"I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I'm not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close."
Who said this? Please leave your guess in the "comments" section below.
But if you can't help yourself, and you must look up the answer (through a google search), then please don't post the answer and ruin it for everyone else!
Monday, March 17, 2014 at 02:48PM 
What well known academic administrator said this?
"I should like to make the young gentlemen of the rising generation as unlike their fathers as possible."
Please leave your guess in the comment section below. If you cannot help yourself and feel like you must cheat (by doing a google search), please do not ruin it for everyone else by then posting the answer! The whole point is to make a guess.
Some have asked me to bring this Riddleblog feature back, but that will depend upon how the impatient among us behave themselves . . . Answer to follow next week.
Kim Riddlebarger
Before he was making the world safe for democracy, Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton. The quote is taken from his essay, "What is Progress?" which is found in American Progressivism: A Reader (edited by Ronald Prestino and William Atto, Lexington Books, 2008), 48.
You have to drink very deeply from the well of William James and John Dewey to affirm something this antithetical to Wilson's professed Presbyterian theology and the covenant which is so central to it.
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 11:58AM 
"Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ. It is granted to us through Baptism. It conforms us to the righteousness of of God, who justifies us. It has for its goal the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life. It is the most excellent work of God's mercy."
Leave your guess (no cheating!) in the comments section below. Answer to follow with the next post.
Kim Riddlebarger
This is from section 2020 of the Catholic Catechism, on justification.
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 08:02AM 
"So we see that 2007 B.C. when Jacob was born is indeed a very significant day insofar as being a beginning for 4000 years. And 2007 B.C. followed by 4000 years ends on -- yes, that's right -- on the year 1994 A.D. How significantly, every path we follow using the prophetic numbers of the Bible focus on 1994 A.D."
This one should be easy, but lest we forget . . .
Please no google searches or cheating. Answer to follow on May 22.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 02:58PM 
"When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened."
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Kim Riddlebarger
This is from David Hume (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part 1, sections 90-91).
Love Hume's hat.
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 10:07PM 
"This is not just the same old message with new methods. We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life. Legal metaphors for faith don't deliver a way of life."
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Kim Riddlebarger
This is from Rob Bell, "The Emergent Mystique" in Christianity Today (01/11/2004).
Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 07:43AM 
"These books the church holds to be sacred and canonical not because she subsequently approved them by her authority after they had been composed by unaided human skill, nor simply because they contain revelation without error, but because, being written under the inspiration of the holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and were as such committed to the church."
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Kim Riddlebarger
This is from the First Vatican Council which affirmed papal infallability, yet also made a rather strong assertion abourt Scripture--that its authority did not come from the church. This is from the third session (on Revelation), April 24, 1870.
Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 08:46AM 
"Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as, 'Pass the salt.' A lot of religions use meditation or chanting. It's a secret, direct prayer language to God. My dad speaks in tongues and my mom interprets it. That's their gift . . . . I wasn't ever able to say I was 'lucky' because my mother would rather us say that we were blessed, and she also didn't like that lucky sounded like Lucifer. 'Deviled eggs were called 'angeled' eggs."
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Kim Riddlebarger
This is from Katy Perry, describing her "Christian" upbringing. The quote is from a Rolling Stone interview she gave in August of 2010.
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:17PM 
"The relationship between God and the soul is original for every man. His religion must be his own. No man or men can tell me what I must think of him. If I am pure of heart, I see him and know him--and creeds are but fictions that have nothing to do with the truth."
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Kim Riddlebarger
This is a quote from Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908). Norton was editor of the influential North American Review--and considered "the most cultivated man in America." The quote is dated August 15, 1865, and comes from Norton's papers. Cited in James Turner's Without God, Without Creed. I realize that this was a tough one, but Norton reflects the American religion--transcendentalism
Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 07:53AM 
"In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is."
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Kim Riddlebarger
This civil religion mish-mash comes from Dwight D. Eisenhower, from an address at the Freedoms Foundation, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, NY, given on 12/22/52.
