Tripp York > Quotes

“The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article.”
― Tripp York, A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence

“I have always felt friendly toward Satan. Of course, that is ancestral; it must be in the blood, for I could not have originated it. —Mark Twain”
― Tripp York, The Devil Wears Nada: Satan Exposed

“Christian pacifism is not passive because it is an embodiment of the life of discipleship. It is standing where Jesus stood, finding ways to disarm the powers and seek justice for the oppressed.”
― Tripp York, A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence

“Me: (in the midst of a conversation) “. . . actually I’m a pacifist.” Person X: “Really?” Me: “Yeah.” (After a brief pause.) Person X: “What if someone was raping your wife?” First off, what makes people jump from pacifism to rape? Why does every person on the planet do this? It’s never: “Pacifist, eh? Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?” or “Pacifism? Isn’t that the opposition to war or violence of any kind, culminating in a refusal to engage in any military activity?” Nope, no Merriam-Webster here; just the same fictitious rape of my invented wife. —English teacher and amateur blogger Nathan Rex Smith”
― Tripp York, A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence

“When people pose the question about the noble men and women who have sacrificed their lives for my freedom and yours, they almost inevitably leave out the fact that many of these very same men and women participated in killing other human beings. Yet, as the famous American general George Patton clearly and profoundly articulated, “The object of war is not to die for your country. It is to make the other poor dumb bastard die for his.”
― Tripp York, A Faith Not Worth Fighting For: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Nonviolence

“That Christians are to be representatives of God demands not a withdrawal from the world, but a thoroughgoing engagement with it even as we are separate from it. Christians are to engage the same world that was engaged by, and eventually killed, Jesus. It is in the how of which we engage such a world that the balance of our precarious witness hangs.”
― Tripp York, Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the 20th Century