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Thus, support for “family values” melds into support for all things Republican, including a hawkish foreign policy, and all somehow get wrapped in scripture. It also melds into an opposition to Democrats so intense that the Christian faith ...more
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Timothy Snyder
“When exactly was the “again” in the slogan “Make America great again”? It is, sadly, the same “again” that we find in “Never again.” A president described a regime change in the style of the 1930s as desirable: “You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster.” What we need, he thought, were “riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.” He couldn’t quite pull off this scenario in January 2021, but it was not for lack of trying.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder
“We do not subscribe to the view that Mr. Hitler and his friends, now finally in possession of the power they have so long desired, will implement the proposals circulating in [Nazi newspapers]; they will not suddenly deprive German Jews of their constitutional rights, nor enclose them in ghettos, nor subject them to the jealous and murderous impulses of the mob. They cannot do this because a number of crucial factors hold powers in check…and they clearly do not want to go down that road. When one acts as a European power, the whole atmosphere tends towards ethical reflection upon one’s better self and away from revisiting one’s earlier oppositional posture.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

James K.A. Smith
“I will argue that the postmodern church could do nothing better than be ancient, that the most powerful way to reach a postmodern world is by recovering tradition, and that the most effective means of discipleship is found in liturgy.”
James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

Jason Micheli
“It is not Christ’s final cry from the depths of a suffering we sinners deserve. ​It is the first line of Christ’s faithful affirmation that Death is being defeated, and that His faithful life unto death— even death on a cross— will be vindicated. ​“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” ​It’s not hell made audible. ​It’s an overture to Easter.”
Jason Micheli, Amazing Disgrace: The Seven Last Words on Calvary

Jason Micheli
“They make the cross seem inevitable, because of who God is, instead of confessing that the cross was inevitable, because of who we are.”
Jason Micheli, Amazing Disgrace: The Seven Last Words on Calvary

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