I spent the last week reading "Christ & Violence" by Ron Sider.

Here are just a few of the things that got me thinking . . .

"One can only agree with James Douglass . . . In the contemporary world of affluence and poverty where man's major crime is murder by privilege, revolution againist the established order is the criterion of a living faith. . . . Truly I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me (Matt. 25:45). The murder of Christ continues. Great societies build on dying men." -pg.69

"But the basic question is really whether we will dare to measure our lifestyles by the needs of the poor rather than by the practices of our affluent neighbors." -pg.78

"The other part of the bad news we must face is that we have talked about peace and then glady enjoyed the fruits of violence. Claiming to believe that it is the peacemakers who are blessed, we have to a terrible degree happily accepted the benefits of the violent status quo." -pg.93