Moltmann #4

  • Turning swords into plowshares: Double strategy of a community lived separately AND people who fight for peace.  The one needs the other to keep from becoming violent to see a picture of peace lived fully, and yet the separate community is not sufficient because it doesn’t really oppose evil.
  • The influence of small groups of alternative life are very affective.
  • The opposite of poverty is not property but community.  In a community we are strong.  Individualism is the lie of marketing.
  • Individuals form a lonely crowd, only communities form communities.
  • The church has 2 tasks: on the one hand to serve the need of the society and on the other hand a prophetic voice that speaks to those in power.
  • The myth of progress is returning in the idea of globalization: and the abyss is approaching in the form of environmental catastrophe.
  • “When I returned from the POW camps I vowed that I would never fight in a Germen military again, but I do vow to kill the dictator.”  JM

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