A Quote by Benjamin Carson
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
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Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
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God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.
When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed: 'Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!'
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