# “Scalpel!” by Herbert Schlossberg

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2009/04/14/scalpel-by-herbert-schlossberg/
- Published: 2009-04-14T15:01:22-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Civil religion eases tensions, where biblical religion creates them. Civil religion
papers over the cracks of evil, and biblical religion strips away the covering, 
exposing the nasty places. Civil religion prescribes aspirin for cancer, and biblical
religion insists on the knife.”

–Herbert Schlossberg, _Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and
American Culture_ (Wheaton: Crossway, 1993), 252.

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