"Faith is fearful and defensive when it begins to die inwardly, struggling to maintain itself and reaching out for security and guarantees...this pusillanimous* faith usually occurs in the form of an orthodoxy which feels threatened and is therefore more rigid than ever... such a faith tries to protect its 'most sacred things,' God, Christ, doctrine and morality, because it clearly no longer believes that these are sufficiently powerful to maintain themselves." - Jurgen Moltmann in The Crucified God*lacking in courage and resolution: marked by a contemptible timidity - Webster
Ouch. Take that conservatives!
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