"Despite the challenges presented by the widespread trivialization and dilution of the Christian Gospel, I remain committed to its fundamental claim: To follow Jesus [or to agree, even as an atheist, with the ethics of the Gospels,] is to love your way through the darkness of the world. This love appears absurd -- in fact pure folly in the face of much of the world’s misery -- and yet it yields indescribable levels of sorrow and joy, sadness and ecstasy. To be a Christian is to look at the world through the lens of the cross and thereby to keep one’s focus on human suffering and struggle."
The Cornel West Reader, p. 355
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Oh, to see the cross of Christ not just as our personal salvific symbol but as a way of life...
"The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act." Walter Brueggemann
Wow.
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Brueggemann--a helluva theologian. He certainly convicts.
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