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Another way to think about this, especially faith-as-allegiance, is that, in the Biblical imagination, there is no space for free moral agency. Every space has a Power or a Lord. The only option before you, therefore, is to whom you will swear allegiance.

Faith, Fidelity, Loyalty and Allegiance

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Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nations to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.

The Irresistible Revolution

Shane Claiborne

privilege tends to be experientially unfamiliar with genuine disempowerment. When people who subscribe to historically successful ideologies, ones that have been socially dominant, go on to experience a decrease in influence, it can qualitatively feel like an existential threat. And the regime presiding over the shrinking of their influence can get construed by them as a tyrannical force, as the instrument of their persecution. So they end up catastrophizing their situation because even a temporary “unprivileging” of their perspective feels to them, from the inside, not as an acceptable loss but as an intolerable form of subjugation. They adopt a framework of suppression when all that’s really happening is society is adjusting to more and different voices acquiring a share of political power.

We Were Zero Years in Power

Berny Belvedere

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