Interesting quote to ponder here.
“There’s a reason elite schools speak of training leaders, not thinkers—holders of power, not its critics.”
Marginal Revolution: Sentences to ponder
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Ruining Lives Since 50 AD
This is one of my favorite Kierkegaard quotes, lifted from a Sojourners “Verse and Voice” email last week.
The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we as Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined.
Søren Kierkegaard,
Danish philosopher, theologian, and ethicist (1813-1855)
Thanks…
This was in Sojomail a week or so ago; first time I recall reading anything like it… unfortunately.
“I don’t want to impose my religious beliefs on you, but I believe God used you to correct us, and I appreciate that.”
- Rob Brendle, Associate Pastor of New Life Church, speaking with Mike Jones, the former male prostitute who exposed former New Life pastor Ted Haggard’s history of drug use and adultery. (Source: J-Walking)
