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Thanks to Michael Iafrate, at Catholic Anarchy, for pointing me to this quote from Dorothy Day: “The word anarchist is deliberately and repeatedly used in order to awaken our readers to the necessity of combating the ‘all-encroaching state,’ as our Bishops have termed it, and to shock serious students into looking into the possibility [...] This is my first full week of classes at AMBS, and I’m loving it so far. I may have a different opinion when I have 3 papers, an exam, and an exegetical notebook due within 2 weeks of each other, but for now I’m loving it. Here are two quotes that really spoke to me [...] Tags: Bible, church, discipleship, justice, ministry, peace |
One comment  Email This Post |  Trackback URL |  Print This Post “The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil…The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power, the Kingdom of God is anarchy.” — Nicolas Berdyaev Found that at ChristianAnarchy.com. Definitely a site worth checking out. “The work of the executive is… as unproductive and as spiritually desolate as that of the garbage collector. Indeed, depending upon the toxicity and persistence of the products and by-products [produced and sold under the executive's oversight], it may be more so. Certainly, by any standard, to haul garbage away is more virtuous than to [...] “The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.” This time from Robert Brimlow’s What About Hitler? Wrestling with Jesus’ Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World. “The main difficulty in accepting the implications of our call to be peacemakers is our fear of death and dying, born of a weakness of faith.” and: “The gospel is clear and simple, and I know what the response to [...] “There are two great lies that I’ve heard: “Military planners operate on the basis of military expediency, and individual soldiers are trained to operate on the basis of unquestioning obedience to their military superiors…In the realm of copybook distinctions it may be a simple matter to divide the bombing of a city into separate acts of willed destruction of a war production plant [...] The Incarnation is the mad story of the undeconstructible God who did not consider undeconstructibility as something to be grasped, nor did he despise deconstructibility, but rather taking the “human, all too human form” of a servant, he humbled himself to the point of inhabiting the very deconstructible structures of human law and culture—even to [...] I must tell you, first of all, what anarchism is not. It is not bombs, disorder, or chaos. It is not robbery or murder. It is not a war of each against all. It is not a return to barbarianism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite [...] |
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