In a recent radio interview, Stanley Hauerwas said:
… the very idea that America has some kind of special understanding of ‘freedom’ that we want to share around the world, is just a capitalist set of presumptions that says freedom is walking in the Circuit City and trying to decide whether I’m going to by a Sony or a Panasonic. That’s not freedom – I mean that’s just as a matter of fact to be determined to be a consumer.
And an SH paraphrase from an unrelated article:
Nothing is more destructive to Christianity than simply saying it is all about love. Jesus was about creating an alternative to the social order – one that requires hospitality to the stranger and forgiveness for the offender. This Christianity is far from being safe. It is, in fact, dangerous.
Lyrics: U2/Rejoice
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On both quotes I am liking. Although for the second one, I’d say that Jesus was about love, just not the kind of love we’d talk about today. The sort that spontaneously causes these social changes and upheavals. A little love is a dangerous thing.