"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christians are not called merely to tend to the victims of Socialism, but to rend the apparatus of the tyrants that drive it. We must not merely plug holes they've created, but poke holes in their plugging along. The Church is called to minister to the weak and wounded and to muster itself against the strong and abusive. Atheistic secular humanism is an orc in need of an Aragorn. It is an enemy of all that is good. Its victims should be cared for, but its vehicles must be disabled. To refuse to do so is to increase the number of its victims and to guarantee that the needs exceed the ability to meet them.
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*I recently (8/2/23 @ 1:45pm) listened to this episode of the Theology Pugcast on Fighting Back: Protestant Resistance Theory in preparation for our monthly Men's Beer n Books meeting this Friday where we will be discussing the final chapters of Glenn Sunshine's Slaying Leviathan. The quote above was referenced in the course of their conversation and it was the first time I had heard it
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