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REVELATION: Texts of Terror in A New Age of Terrorism
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25 minutes 38 seconds
1 year ago
REVELATION: Texts of Terror in A New Age of Terrorism
"How does Revelation fit with our awareness of the non-violent historical Jesus?"
One could start by reflecting on Netanyahu's recent speech in Hebrew, referring to the biblical injunction to kill the Amalekites: women and children along with the men. We could go from there to homegrown texts of terror. The Turner Diaries. The Left Behind series. And, again in reference to Black suffering, Thomas Dixon's The Clansman: the book that inspired "Gone with the Wind."
John Dominic Crossan says, “This biblical patterning of yes-and-no justifies my choice of the nonviolent Jesus of the Incarnation over the violent Jesus of the Apocalypse as the true Jesus. Put simply, the nonviolent Jesus is the Christian Bible’s assertion, acceptance, and affirmation of the radicality of God, while the violent Jesus is its corresponding subversion, rejection, and negation in favor of the normalcy of civilization.”
Which Jesus do you choose?
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