"there is a particular unattractive and discouraging common affliction called tunnel vision, which, for all the misery it causes, ought to top the job list at the World Health Organization. Tunnel vision is a disease by vested interest. Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good idea is a run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comes out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended.
That is how the loving ideas of Jesus Christ became the sinister cliches of Christianity. That is why virtually every revolution in history has failed: the oppressed, as soon as they seize power, turn into the oppressors, resorting to totalitarian tactics to 'protect the revolution.'"
-Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker, p86)
where do our churches lie on the spectrum of God's Kingdom revolution? Protecting it? Acting it out?
1 comment:
that's a powerful word from mr. robbins. and very true. look at dictators the world over. isn't there a song about "history repeating..."
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