Matthew Parris Quotes

• As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

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  Atheist, Believe, Needs

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• Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.

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  Cristiano, Espiritual, Ateo

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• Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

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  Christian, Nike, Doctors

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• Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

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  Politics, Politician, Good Politicians

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• Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

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  Vanity, Self, Mps

  1994 InTheTimes, 9 Feb.

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• When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.

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  War, Exercise, White

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• All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed.

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  Ideas, Atheism, Islam

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• Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.

  Matthew Parris

  Fruitcake, Want, Seats

  1997 On the day before the Kensington and Chelsea Conservatives chose Alan Clark as their parliamentary candidate. In the Daily Mail, 26 Jan.

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