with a friend of the on the september sunday robert russell the founding director if the center of theology in natural sciences >>> 30 years ago you began to realize what you thought was a good idea and founded the center for study 30 years later it seems to be going right along. >>> the center for theology and natural sciences 30 years anniversary this year and in the beginning i was raised in the church in felt these two worlds were talking to to seminary inbound they want talking they're either and it became clear this was my calling so i became a professor of theology and sinus science end of began to have a worldwide impact to major grants. >>> use it down 30 years ago when you get a bunch of i assume religious types around the table and some of them mark theologians and some of them are scientists and how does this begin? >>> in an age when either science and religions her scenes in separate conflict what's the alternative the new way was this dialogue to mutual respect and there's value added each side the scientists can benefit cause was the elegists the question was straight for he

of jews for jesus from christian theology? >> well, not much when it comes to the person of jesus. we would be very conventional in that rard but let me say that while dr. prothero has done a good job of pointing out what the academic view of jesus is in the jewish community, i think that there needs to be a little bit of an update in terms of what seems to be more of the man on the street in the jewish community. >> what are you referring to that he wrote? >> well, he talks about the reclamation of jesus, and that's good, and he says that samuel sandmouth is perhaps the leader of today's thought with regard to jews' views o jes but the man on the street in the jewish community there's a tremendous schedulessia within the jewish community, we're deeply divided and i think you can see this most clearly in the response in the jewish community to mel gibson's "the "passion of the christ"." you have on the one hand abraham foxman of the antidefamation league saying it's dangerous, going to produce antisemitism, michael met vet, de

richard mouw, professor of christian philosophy at the fuller school of theology, says one reason is because mormons have been such good proslytizers. >> mormonism began as this evangelistic program of going out and getting converts, and very often converts from the traditional denominations, and so evangelicals and mormons have had an unusually hostile relationship over the years because they have been sort of competing proselytizing programs, but also they traded the rhetoric in very hostile terms. >> there's a sense of them-against-us that in some ways gets inflated among the grassroots membership of the church. but there is no doubt that for many people they see evangelicals as the enemy, and they need to be converted. >> reporter: among scholars, the important distinction between mormonism and most mainstream christian churches centers on theology. >> the mormon view of the godhead is that god, jesus christ, and the holy spirit are three separate beings, so mormons reject a trinitarian notion that they're three in one. mormons see them as three distinct and separate beings. >> a

that includes, what, theology? >> theology, philosophy, yeah. >> do they teach you shakespeare? >> i managed to stay away from shakespeare at the master's level. >> you'd be comfortable there now because i understand even for literature majors shakespeare is not a mandatory subject, do you believe that? what has happened to these? >> reporter, covered politics, weekly pbs series john ander nathalie. "u.s. news and world report," religion editor. your book to your credit. >> my first book. >> and still worng at "u.s. news & world report." >> i still am. >> if i mention the name funk to you, who is he, robert funk? >> he's a bible scholar, new testament scholar who is founder and leader of a group called jesus seminar. a group of scholars for the last 15 years have been exploring the historical jesus. >> yeah, does he have very much standing in the academic community paula fredriksen interhe represents the school of representation. >> she's also a diplomat. well, funk is saying some pretty vacanting things. and it appears as though he is 's organized a semiannualot? seminar that y

in the beginning of time according to catholic theology the angels all made a fundamental choice either to be obedient to god or rebellious of god and the sewer obedient state and have been answered, and we consider them to be the holy angels in heaven and the son or rebellious with the demons of help. so in that sense those are in heaven main making the fundamental trends for got our holy angels and the ruling comes from some of tears which is related to the word same. >>> he kicked it away from the church has brand items that everybody knows about sinks among them but what about brand name since like joseph infant addicting john the baptist. and st. patrick court how people become grant sings like that. >>> in the case of st. joseph i think it's fairly obvious to is the foster father of jesus the church holds about the very highest regard among the saints and others international since like st. patrick the patron of ireland and in the irish of spread out to north america and populated that ireland itself. >>> were about st. joseph statues. upside-down in your yard when you sell your h

the beginning of time according to a catholic theology is the angels on a fundamental choice either to be obedient to god or rebellious and those who are obedient stayed in heaven and serve god we consider them to be the holy angels in heaven and the son or rebellious with lucifer and are the demons of called and that since those in heaven made the fundamental choice for our holy angels and the roar of holy comes from song to switch is related to the words sink in english word saint. >>> they can't away from at the church has brand items have a buddy knows about sense among them but about brand name since like joseph n. benedict and john the baptist. for the how did you folks to become friends say it's like death >>> earth in the case of st. joseph is fairly obvious to the foster father of jesus and the husband of the blessed virgin mary to the church will come up and the very highest regard among the saints and other saints are national st. st. patrick he is the patron of ireland and the irish of spread out to north america and populated that so his devotion has carried much further t

the things that they see themselves as having received in earlier revelation. >> reporter: mormon theology has changed over the years after church prophets have received new revelations. it wasn't until the 1970s that the church allowed blacks to hold the priesthood. and the church's policy allowing plural marria wasbanded the 1890s after a prophetic revelation. >> a lot of americans are suspicious of mormons over the issue of polygamy, which should have gone away a long time ago. but the problem is that there are these mormon fundamentalist sects, especially in southern utah and northern arizona, that still practice polygamy, and i think that gets a lot of the american people confused about what the mormon church's position really is. >> reporter: as for lingering animosity today, professor mouw says some of it is because the mormon church hagrown so big d prperous. >> and i think it has something to do with the growth of mormonism. while on the one hand they're entering into the mainstream in a lot of ways, they're also a very powerful presence globally, 14 million mormons around the wor

religious studies, though theology and the quest to understand human existence goes back to the dawn of time, religious studies is really only about 35, 40 years old. it's a relatively new field. in fact i'm only the first generation of religious studies professors who are trained at state universities. so, it's relatively new and - but i think the time is ripe and i hope, you know, as we journey through the course that will become evident. polymethodic, multicultural and comparative - we'll look at many different cultures and will compare rituals, will compare myths, will compare these various things and it is certainly part of it. worldview analysis skills - that's what you get for the tuition money you've laid down for this course, hopefully. you get some very practical useable skills that well after this course is over you'll be able to apply in not just settings with religion but any worldview, i mean, your wonderful comment about let's be careful about, you know, what could be dangerous religious cult or something like that. these will be skills with neutral criteria. you can m

the first part is principals in theology for liberty. my dedicate one chapter to the war on drugs. it is easy to believe it is good, the drug czar bad bad, cocaine will be sold on every street corner if we legalize. what is the proper application? just because you want to grow marijuana plant to the extent it is used as crime then you could talk about government intervention. even if i disagree as of mormon we have a moral code for r will not a force that upon others as long as they don't violate my rights. but good government does that on my behalf. same-sex marriage i don't believe the government has a right to sanction any personal relationship is should be a personal contract, the churches, letting government control the major relationship, vanna white gapped -- giving government the power. whenever it is given the power to centralize it is a political game who can win the election to put their dictates another people. there is a threat to the of men-- same-sex marriages a violation but legislative solutions are the appropriate mechanism. extricating government altogether is th

not just because of the theology of it. but because of the sentenced, the language. was the monarch who followed elisabeth. elizabethan english gave us shakespeare. king james gave us the new testament. it is an interesting -- i am half literate. tavis: you are being modest. why is this predict called -- project called "3 pears'? s. p-a-i-r- it was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the moment that gave me the idea for the song, watching the george harrison documentary. i was watching that in the kitchen one night after i had begun recording the album. i was listening to him tell a story about he and john. people thought we wrote lyrics that were drug induced. we had very little dalliance with drugs. i guess they smoked pot, he said. they dabbled a little bit with some mind opening guru with taking acid. one night, we had taken lsd and we did not have a bad trip. some months lead us acid in a nightclub in london. we did not free doubt. but we did not know where we were -- we did not freaked out. but we did not know where we were for a day and a half. they cut to a piece

in the book the first half is all about principles and theology, setting the framework for liberty is. the second half of the book dedicate one chapter to many of these issues, one of which is the war on drugs. it's easy to believe the conventional, the superficial, what is in the media, the war on drugs is good. drugs may be bad. cocaine will be sold at every street corner if we legalize drugs. i really try and dig deep into the issues this safer understand liberty what is the proper application? the war on drugs, i don't have the right to progress against you because you want to grow marijuana plant and ingested. to the extent that drugs are used in crime, certainly that introduces the up originally to talk about government intervention, but to the extent that a person is doing what they want, even if it's something i disagree with, especially as a mormon, i think that we have a moral code, i am not going to enforce that upon others as long as they are not violating my right. i therefore can't delegate to the government the power to do that on my behalf. so same-sex marriage, for ex

this is the theology. how can you say it's irrational, it doesn't matter. the point is, there were some people who have fewer inhibitions about using nuclear weapons. khrushchev and kennedy felt the pull back immediately when he realized he finally understood the meaning of the word miscalculation. castro did not take that. that is, we have to worry about that commander in the middle east for you have a famously rough neighborhood where people don't trust each other and all. you don't have a superpower sponsor her could restrain. h'm so the point is he did not t to have the stuff spread. ideally you don't want to spread anywhere, but @booktv don't want to give it to the kind of people who run a country like iran. it will make the world a safer place. to everything possible to see that they do not. >> how did you evaluate the possibility of offensive cyber attacks by the united states and its allies like the one that disrupted the centrifuges we heard about in the past as a tactic in dealing with this? >> certainly anything that we can do in cyber where we h

to have a debate, an abstract debate of what has been called at times nuclear theology or whatever you want to call it, nuclear doctrines, doesn't matterment if they think differently an act on it, that could increase the risk of war. with this in mind, bear in mind that the people who worry about the best are going to -- knot going to follow your example as you reduce it. it makes their weapons more valuable. we don't have the ability to have any idea to verify how many weapons exist in countries the size of china or russia. we couldn't even find before -- after the gulf war and before the second iraqi war, we couldn't find all the wmd we were looking for. these things are hard to do. the end of the iraqi freedom, we found 12 jet planes buried in the sand. you don't think you can bury cruise missiles a mile down? we don't have any ability to find the stuff. if there's a breakout, there's no substitute for nuclear weapons r and nuclear weapons were one of the things that detoured a major full-scale war. you had major regional conflicts like vietnam and several in the middle east, and w

have an abstract debate them what has been called at times nuclear theology by whatever you want to call common nuclear doctrine, it doesn't matter. if they think differently and act on it, that will change the way the crisis unfolds and could very well increase the risk of war. so with this in mind, bear in mind that people who we worry about the most outgoing, not going to follow your example as you reduced to make their weapons more valuable. we don't have the ability to have any idea to verify how many weapons exist in countries the size of china or russia. we couldn't even find after the gulf war and before the second iraq war, we couldn't even find all the wmds were looking for. we had to have defectors help us. these things are hard to do. the end of the second iraqi freedom we found 12 of jet planes buried in the sand. if you could very cruise missiles i mile down. so we don't have any ability to find stuff. it is a breakout we don't have a substitute for nuclear weapons, and nuclear weapons were one of the things that have deterred a major full scale war, though you have had maj

>> a wonderful exercise in theology, in discussing the existence or nonexistence of god. >> are you atake this scene with paul rut. dd who played a begunking-ho born-again christian >> i've got some news for you. all right. one, there is no jesus. really? two, there's no god. reporter: asner plays carl, a german immigrant who works as an exterminator. >> i have a tragic past. i carry a lot of guilt. >> reporter: but yet he manages to be both a comic relief and kind of one of a profound characters in this show. >> yeah. i'm a switch-hitter. >> i don't know who made the earth. i woke up one morning alive and it's here. i make the best of it. >> reporter: ed asner did not set out to be an actor. growing up in kansas city as the son of orthodox jewish immigrants, he made a name for himself playing high school football and was headed for a career as a reporter until a conversation with his journalism teacher. >> i wouldn't. he said why not? he said you can't make a living. oh, okay. okay. so i went on to become the overnight sensation as an actor that you see before you. >> reporter: in fa

. >> mitt didn't discuss questions of theology. he found a definition of religion given by james in the new testament to be a practical guide. pure religion is to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction. >> on wednesday night, vice-president nominee paul ryan a catholic linked his own faith with romney's. >> our faiths come together in the same moral creed. we believe that in every life there is goodness. for every person there is hope. each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the lord of life. >> prior to this week, there had been few explicit references to romney's mormonism from the campaign, and there has been intense debate about whether the topic should be addressed head on. according to the pew research center, half of all americans say it doesn't bother them when politicians talk about how religious they are. two-thirds of americans say it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs. and among republicans, that number jumps to more than 80%. mark dumas is an e

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was on that side of roman catholicism that was very socioactive - i mean, he was all - liberation theology, all over latin america, working for people, working with the poor, which is a highly important part of that faith. he said when he got the call to go to the monastery, which was an inward call, that he firmly believes - and he stressed this - "i am doing more for humanity in this monastery, making those branches go deep" - and i'm borrowing the analogy from bishop thomas here - he didn't say that, but that was the gist of it - "by making my faith branches go deep, i am doing more practically to help the world than anything else." and for a secularized person, which i have, to some extent, like it or not, am, i would have to do a head scratch on that. but the way they say it, something's got to be cooking there. susanna? >> i was going to say that even within the monastery, there are many different styles. you can go to gethsemane in kentucky and feel a very similar feeling. when you just enter there, before you've spoken with anyone, you have a similar feeling. but here is thomas mer

if you want to make a cultural comment, this is their theology and how can we say their theology is rational in this and that, it doesn't matter to me. the point is there are people who have -- khrushchev and kennedy thought to pull back immediately with khrushchev realized if i'm interested the meaning of the word miscalculation. castro did not take that feeling. we have to worry about that when you're in the middle east when you have a rough neighborhood where people don't trust each other at all, where you don't have the superpower sponsor you could restrain, as khrushchev did, in 1962. who could restrain a surrogate so a client. so, the point is that you do not want to have this stuff spread and ideally you don't want to spread anyway but he certainly don't want to give it to the kind of people who run a country like iran. it's not going to make the world a safer place and we should do everything possible to see that they do not. >> how do you evaluate the possibility of defensive cyberattacks by the united states with allies like the one that disrupted the centrifuges we heard about in

>> i don't think that government should get involved in theology, what they should say, the governmentainst human reason. it's a group, whether religious or not. is commanding people to kill in the name of anything, a government needs to step in and say, that is wrong. call yourself religious, whatever. by human reason we can be sure that that is evil and must be stopped. >> father jonathan, nice to see you. >> we figured out not only theology, but-- >> i think you game close. >> actually quite simple things, to say in the name of god, in the name of religion. no, no, no, human reason is a positive thing and faith and reason are not in contradiction. >> you made it clear. >> he got three minutes and figured it out. thanks, father. still ahead, tomorrow marks one since the occupy movement began. did they meet any of their goals? >> wait until you hear what congressman alan west says about it coming up. ♪ you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more pcessed flakes look nothing like natural grains. i'm eatin

but he had a very systematic and well worked out theology and he was always getting new revelations orevealing further things to his followers. and lists them, i would say, very seriously. >> professor, it seems like while they are still active, they passed their peak maybe a generation ago. when i was a kid, parents were scared that their kids would end up -- a slightly derogatory term. >> you come and go. >> i'm sorry about that. i don't want you to think i'm being rude. be rude to a professor. so, calling yourself a messiah. that's an extreme stance to take. was he that charismatic? >> some charismatic leaders serply do call themselves messiahs. he would say, there's a sense in which everybody can be a messiah, but he was the sort of messiah of all messiahs. he was a special man and he saw or he said that messiahs sat in office. he had to form a particular -- distorting the kingdom of heaven on earth, restoring it to the situation it was in the garden of eden before the fall. this was his task. what he meant by messiah. >> well, certainly and a lot of people do not agree with what h

instead wno evidence, she grasps her scrapof paper onto the dubious cannon of feminist theology and ideologyich she embodies. no one is shouting hoax or you lie from the ivory towers, nevertheless, there is a smoldering suspicion that professors like miss king have become so carried away of their notions of marriage, sex and the family, that history and rigorous scholarship have been all but abandoned in places like harvear. one last note, the harvard theological review is suspending publication of professor king's findings, pending the results of further study. >> world leaders are gathering for the annual u.n. meeting, as all eyesor iran's president and his upcoming speech. what should we expect? dan gillerman is here in minutes. bob... oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it's always good to have a backup plan, in case i get hit by a meteor. wow, your hair looks great. didn't realize they did photoshop here. hey, good call on those mugs. can't let 'em see what you're drinking. you know, i'm glad we're both running a nice, clean race

she was also a theology student, and we went up to - the theological seminary up in chicago, and had an interview with her. and part of the interview, we said, "well, kate, why a witch? why did you do this?" and so, from the perspective of the class, let's think of kate as a human being not particularly satisfied with the set of answers in a more standard, ordinary religion, who has kind of a funny event that occurs that wakes her up and says there's a new vista. she's a seeker, and we want to talk about seekers as a leap-off into the experiential dimension, because those are the folks who we can really be sure they're experiencing. it's not that other people aren't, but those who are seeking are more likely to be asking boundary questions. so let's just listen to kate cogan here give a sense of why she became a witch. >> i was looking for a way to take that kind of spirituality but literally ground more. and one day i was in a library and a book literally fell on my head, and in this book was - it was sort of a survey of all of these different religions that were coming to prominenc

. >> now the former speaker, soaping she can step in and declare what the theology of the catholic church is. >> carl, let me be clear on this, nancy pelosi is a political animal. all right? whatever she says doesn't surprise me. this woman comes out under the heading of the kennedy name and the kennedy legacy and directly besmirches her church. that's stunning. >> she may not be a politician in the way that nancy pelosi is, but she comes from a very political family. her presence there tonight was on behalf of that family. she's been a political figure. she was a key endorsement for barak obama in 2008. there is a reason why they asked her to take a role tonight on the night that the president is speaking. >> she didn't have to do that, though. >> you're right. neither does nancy pelosi. i agree with you. it's gratuitous when people of any faith go out of their way to basically say i'm a catholic and i'm telling you that i disagree deeply with the catholic church's opinions and i'm going to do so in a political sphere in order to make it easier for people who share my particular faith to

of wisdom out there in these religions that's hidden and often hidden beneath a lot of ritual and theologym going to be honest here, turns a lot of people off. i know it turned me off. >> can you extract that and make that sort of the driving force behind your religious life? >> real quickly, your religious background? >> i do but not much of one. i was born jewish, but in my family we were really gastronomical jews. it was all about the food and not about god and religion. i think i'm fairly typical that way. a lot of jews and christians and muslims feel estrange from their faith, but yet we continue to have these spiritual yearnings and we want to fulfill them, so we have quite a spiritually promiscuous nation. nearly one out of three americans will change their religious affiliation over the course of their lifetime, and it might be a fairly narrow modification from, say, you know, lutheran to methodist or it might be a big jump from catholic to muslim or jewish to buddhist. we are a nation of seekers. >> i think most would acknowledge that the biggest jump would be religions like wica

part of that for him was the citing his identity as a mormon, has this particular theology which is extremely strong and marriage and is the male and female, and i knew a jewish man who decided to become an orthodox jew. a decision that this different identity based on your sexual desire and strikes me as difficult and challenging and if it was made in good faith and honesty. >> not that i don't respect it. i am a pro freedom kind of guy and i want people to be able to pursue openly and honestly the kinds of relationships they decide suitable for them with non consenting -- suppose they do not see that as an option that most gay men would not. they found each other and yet they find each is enriched by the other and they find they make each other better people. i said that earlier. that is an important part of a relationship that gets us outside of ourselves. >> one of the things that is lovely about what you do in this book is unlike many gay marriage advocates who lay on a rich portrait of a marriage which is about more than romantic love and embedded in moral and communal norms and that is

his opponent, governor romney assuming he takes mormon theology seriously does in fact treat the constitution as a sacred foundational text. that is what the book of mormon says. forget the fact that the constitution is woefully in nondemocratic. perhaps that truly doesn't matter. the new book begins and certainly friedman's and my focus is on the degree to which people are fundamentally dissatisfied or worse with the current operation of the american system of government. how many of you agree with a 61% of polled americans that the country is going wrong direction for the political system is proving inadequate to engage in necessary terms? whatever your own major concerns might be? were you a drought-stricken farmers you would i suspect the furious beyond belief at the irresponsibility of the present congress taking an election campaign recess instead of tending to those national priorities. some persons tie the drought to human cause global warming. one sees a totally non responsive congress. if one is more of a political right and i would insist that my book independently of my political

network of these men -- who is called "fraternity" because this is not about one man, a priest, a theology professor and later at dean and later president who would now to find a group of men. these were men who are highly motivated, highly accomplished and were being given an opportunity they probably would not have had two or three years earlier. there were african-american students at holy cross but there tended to be one or two a year and in some cases one. as a art martin would say one would be thrown athletic seller ship and one the come in through the catholic scholarship and i was pretty much it. this was the first major group that came, 20 men. clarence thomas transferred after dropping out of the seminary and so it was the first time they had critical numbers on campus. and what i think happened was father brooks and the college never veered on academic standards. all of them had to work as hard, harder in many cases and i think ted wells and clarence thomas tended to close down the library at night according to everybody i talked to. but, i think where he did make concessions wa

like they may decide to use nuclear weapons whether you want to make cultural, how can we say this theology is a rational, it doesn't matter to me. the point is there some people love fewer inhibitions that using nuclear weapons. khrushchev and kennedy thought to pull back anyone khrushchev realize he found a should the meaning of the word miscalculation. castro did not take that view. and that, we have to worry about that and you're in the middle east where you have famously rough neighborhood where people don't trust each other at all, or you don't have a superpower sponsor who could restrain, as khrushchev did, in 1962, who could restrain a surrogate. a client. so the point is that you do not want to have the stuff spread. ideally you don't want to spread anywhere but you certain to want to give it to the kinds of people who run the country like iran. it's not going to make the world a safe place and we should do everything possible to see that they did not. -- that they do not. >> how do you evaluate the possibility of cyber attacks by the nazis and its allies like the one that disrupte

>> a wonderful exercise in theology, in discussing the existence or nonexistence of god. >> are you a. dd who played a begunking-ho born-again christian >> i've got some news for you. all right. one, there is no jesus. really? two, there's no god. reporter: asner plays carl, a german immigrant who works as an exterminator. >> i have a tragic past. i carry a lot of guilt. >> reporter: but yet he manages to be both a comic relief and kind of one of a profound characters in this show. >> yeah. i'm a switch-hitter. >> i don't know who made the earth. i woke up one morning alive and it's here. i make the best of it. >> reporter: ed asner did not set out to be an actor. growing up in kansas city as the son of orthodox jewish immigrants, he made a name for himself playing high school football and was headed for a career as a reporter until a conversation with his journalism teacher. >> i wouldn't. he said why not? he said you can't make a living. oh, okay. okay. so i went on to become the overnight sensation as an actor that you see before you. >> reporter: in fact as asner told me in our co

think we need to look at our history and remember that the mormons are good people but they have a theologyt's founded on something that has to do with kings and queens. >> and you think that's going to affect how mitt romney would be as president? >> well, it is inevitable. everybody is a product of their early childhood upbringing. when individual is told right from the first time they are initiated in the temple that they are going to become a king or queen, there is a mind-set of royalty. there is a mind-set of monarchy. look at the history. when johnson's army went into utah, they had to take over that area. why? it was a monarchy. it was not one of the twin relics of barbarism. it was the state was a monarchy. >> a lot of talk about mitt romney's religion, his personal life, his family life at the republican national convention that we just showed over the last few days this week. you can go back and watch some of those at c-span.org /campaign2012. watching as president obama just wrapped things up. he is greeting the crowd here after speaking to them at the rock the vote event. on to

obama believes, liberation theology. he only quit it when it's preacher came under fire, during the campaign. host: bill is a democrat in indiana. caller: i would like to talk about congress. get ridy want to do is giv of poor people. they want to get rid of middle class and the unions. they don't believe in retirement plans. they keep having hearings about banks losing money. people lost $2 trillion in their 401k plan, there was not a committee or anyone talking about that. host: what would you change, b -- bill? caller: well, i would change something about how the government is run. they talk about protecting our borders at the south. what you have to worry about is the main gate coming through. they have trucks from mexico, they're not allowed to check them or anything. that's where all the dope dealers and gangs are coming from and going to all the cities in the the nobody's talking about that. all they can do is keep passing laws against the citizens of the united states. i don't understand that. host: a tweet -- he

going to make a powerful case for obama but also a powerful indictment of mitt romney and republican theologyd loves the guy, he's a great performer. last time i checked he kind of likes crowds and talking. he'll embrace the moment. drama between the clintons and obamas which was real in his book, i don't thing it's as big and palpable as a couple years ago. >> clinton brings some advantages. what are the disadvantages to having bill clinton take the stage for the president? >> i agree with jim. i don't see very many. it will be interesting seeto see how far after 11 he goes given the stage, and the text, which has not been handed in yet, i think he's going to love it because he doesn't get to do this very often. he has given long speeches at past democratic speeches, i bet it's delivered longer than as written. >> what i would like bill clinton on truth serum for his take on last night's not the performance but language. a lot of stuff you hear in the speeches that i think is a lot more than bill clinton would prescribe. his formula for winning nabl elections was moving to the center, not th

like in the scheme of this development of china. 30, 40 years southborough speared >> my major was theology and sociology, so i'm happy to make comments. although now is revolutionary in theory, he blocked the ability. he led people in the countryside had to stay in a commune. they could move to the city. and people who worked in a certain unit in the city were bonded to that unit and they couldn't move easily to other units on the housing assailed by the states. so why deng did by opening up migration, allowing people to move from the countryside to the city as they had enough food to feed the city population, completely transformed a society that had been really rigid and locked in to one that was mobile. the old family system and a lot of the rural areas was not preserved when you move so rapidly and people in the city only had one child. as for the chinese going overseas, there's many different kinds of reasons and jenny is going overseas. some are diplomats who want to keep good relations. some are working for chinois and a private capacity to see what's going on and pass it out so tha

last time i checked the constitution doesn't allow a president to pick and choose based on his a theologyce and they are using those dollars. you're taxpayers' money to undo your values. that should stop, that must stop and canned in november. [applause] perhaps the biggest war against our liberty is the war that is being waged against those that are not here today, the unborn. besides slavery, abortion is the darkest stains on our nation's character and this president is looking for every way possible to make abortion or available and more frequent. and he wants you to pay for it. even if you disagree with it. welcome to another provision of obamacare. like the proslavery forces that invaded kansas the pro-abortion forces in washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder. that being born is worse than death, that the unborn baby is property, not a person. we have heard that before years ago. not shockingly, we see this administration opposing any reductions in the taxpayer funding to the one private corporation, the largest abortion business in the entire country