“ Religiously inspired intolerance can lead people to do extremely ugly things. Crusades and inquisitions are what happen when Christianity loses the beauty of imitating Christ. A Christianity that, though orthodox in doctrine, is retaliatory in attitude is a Christianity that has betrayed the cross and lost its beauty. A Christianity that is absent the beauty of imitating Christ in nonretaliatory, unconditional forgiveness becomes a Christianity focused on its own interests and self-preservation. This is the ugly Christianity that demands rights and angrily protests when it is treated by the world as Christ was treated by the world. The irony is tragic.
— Brian Zahnd (via aphotographicprotest)
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