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Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

by N.T. Wright

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Oct 05, 2019 08:01AM

“According to Jesus, whenever we do harm to another Christian, we are causing Him pain as well. That means that we, as followers of Christ, are not allowed to justify violence against other Christians by claiming that we’re simply following orders, fighting for justice, or standing up for liberty.”
― Keith Giles, Jesus Untangled: Crucifying Our Politics to Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb

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“Imagine what might happen if you could honestly strip away every label and scrap of tribal identity? What if you were not a Baptist, but simply someone who loved Jesus? What if you weren’t a Republican or a Democrat anymore, but simply a follower of Christ? What if you abandoned your identity as an American and saw yourself simply as a citizen in the Kingdom of God?”
― Keith Giles, Jesus Untangled: Crucifying Our Politics to Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb

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“Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show,democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is,by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel.In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity.”
― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

tags: democracy

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“The governments of this planet are of this world, not of God. Our allegiance is to Jesus alone. His Kingdom is our only true homeland.”
― Keith Giles, Jesus Untangled: Crucifying Our Politics to Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb

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“It was of the essence of the courtier's art and mystery that he flattered his employer in order to victimize him, yielded to him in order to rule him. The politician under democracy does precisely the same thing. His business is never what it pretends to be. Ostensibly he is anal truist devoted whole-heartedly to the service of his fellow-men, and so abjectly public-spirited that his private interest is nothing to him. Actually he is a sturdy rogue whose principal, and often sole aim in life is to butter his parsnips.”
― H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy

tags: democracy, politics

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