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Quotes by John Dominic Crossan

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FloridaAs a resident alien in the U.S. I wasn't allowed to vote, but since I was living in Florida it didn't seem to matter.
JusticeSeparate justice and love, and what do you get? A corpse.
- (theologian)
TheologyThree million years from stone to iron weapons, but three thousand years from iron to atomic weapons. Not bad progress that, for a smart ape from Africa. Violence is not the inevitability of human nature but only the normalcy of human civilization. The Christian Bible presents the radicality of a just and nonviolent God repeatedly and relentlessly confronting the normalcy of an unjust and violent civilization. Peace by Victory (Civilization), Peace by Justice (Post-Civilization), or Peace by Death (Anti-Civilization) - It is in the challenge of human evolution that we are called to Post-Civilization, to imagine it, to create it, and to enjoy it on a transfigured earth.
- (OD & EMPIRE - Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now)
USAPeople around the world are no longer convinced that we are a just empire.
- (referring to the USA)
USAPeople around the world are no longer convinced that we are a just empire. {referring to the USA}
- (Irish-American biblical scholar)
ViolenceCivilization is based on violence.
- (Theologian)
WarWe always say that victory begets peace, but it never does.
- (Roman Catholic theologian)
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