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The Plutocrat - Kahlil Gibran

In my wanderings I once saw upon an island a man-headed, iron-hoofed monster who ate of the earth and drank of the sea incessantly. And for a long while I watched him.

Then I approached him and said, “Have you never enough; is your hunger never satisfied and your thirst never quenched?”

And he answered saying, “Yes, I am satisfied, nay, I am weary of eating and drinking; but I am afraid that tomorrow there will be no more earth to eat and no more sea to drink.”

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July 31, 2011
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"In the politics of rebellious mankind, we are ready to sacrifice persons to causes, even to ideas. General labels like “freedom” or “justice” or “socialism” or “capitalism” “order” or “humanism” become positive or negative values in their own right, cause to combat for or to destroy. The modern word for this is “ideology.” The biblical word that best fits i probably “idol.” In the Spirit of God, the jealous God who wants us to serve none other, there is no such disincarnate or ideal value worthy to demand the sacrifice of the concrete personal and communal values of our real neighbor."

~ John Howard Yoder (via azspot)

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    Yoder, ”The Spirit of God and the Politics of Men” in For the Nations: Essays Public and Evangelical
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