“christians have never killed as willingly as when they have been asked to do so for ‘freedom'”
p135
dispatches from the front
Stanley hauerwas.
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Archive for April, 2012
Me and Simy were there recently. Here’s a little vid
“in the name of supporting democracy, Christians police their own convictions to insure none of these convictions might cause difficulty for making democracy successful.”
hauerwas
dispatches from the front p105
PS hopefully you can see this passage is not about “policing” in the Garda/PSNI sense but more how we have rejected our convictions to fit liberal democracy.
from a chapter in “dispatches from the front” by hauerwas
“a truthful story cannot avoid the bad we have done or allowed any more than it can fail to record that the good we have done has been the result of mixed motives”
