Shane Claiborne Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Son, Support

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

• The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Imagination, Political

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.153, Harper Collins

• It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.

  Shane Claiborne

  Race, Lynching, Years

  Source: medium.com

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