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All our social-media feeds produce is a one-sided sympathetic stress reaction, day after day.

Stranger God

Richard Beck

This is why the opposite of faith isn't "unbelief" but idolatry -- betraying your love, breaking your promise, serving another lord. And again, the issue of idolatry isn't here a mental game, a game of "believing" in this or that. Idolatry, says the theologian William Cavanaugh, is less about your metaphysical or ontological beliefs than a lifestyle that betrays your fundamental allegiances:

Faith, Fidelity, Loyalty and Allegiance

experimentaltheology.blogspot.com

It is clear that in its earliest centuries, the Church rejected the religion, economics, and violence of empire. Often, Christians saw themselves as a distinct socio-political reality which, while not necessarily anarchistic, certainly had many similar components.

That Holy Anarchist

Mark Van Steenwyk and Ched Myers

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