Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
The worst corruption is a corrupt religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971, Theologian, Quoted in Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr, New York Times Book Review, September 18, 2005
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Jefferson was a deist but had little love for the organized religions and did not consider the Bible as the revealed word of God.
by the President and the White House Kennan was certainly right in Powell’s case. The President and Vice President—Bush and Cheney used Powell’s and the State Department’s credibility to have Powell tell the United Nations and the American Public that there was incontrovertible evidence that Iraq has a nuclear weapon about to be deployed thus justifying the American invasion of Iraq, However, this was untrue. Not only was there no nuclear bomb almost ready for deployment, there was no nuclear development program in Iraq at all.
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion, politics, and public policy, with his most influential books including Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man. The latter is ranked number 18 of the top 100 non-fiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library. Andrew Bacevich labelled Niebuhr's book The Irony of American History "the most important book ever written on U.S. foreign policy." The historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. described Niebuhr as "the most influential American theologian of the 20th century" and Time posthumously called Niebuhr "the greatest Protestant theologian in America since Jonathan Edwards."
