"The Myth of Redemptive Violence is the real myth of the modern world...It, and not Judaism or Christianity or Islam, is the dominant religion in our society today...By divine right the state has the power to demand that its citizens sacrifice their lives to maintain the privileges enjoyed by the few. By divine decree it utilizes violence to cleanse the world of enemies of the state. Wealth and prosperity are the right of those who rule in such a state. And the name of God—any god, the Christian God included—can be invoked as having specially blessed and favored the supremacy of the chosen nation and its ruling caste."
--Walter Wink The Powers That Be
Interestingly enough--this kind of stuff usually makes alot more sense to the homeless than it does to the average middle class evangelical.
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That's a GREAT quote... its sad that we evangelicals are not more conscious of things at times :(. Thank God for the many who are!! And for homeless people who teach us such important lessons. Thanks for sharing this one with us - I ran into it this summer too.
Could you rephrase this for me?
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