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Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but himself. he was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with god to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. in this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

-Henri Nouwen

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Jesus Was A Revolutionary, Who Did Not

Henri Nouwen

Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but himself. he was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with god to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. in this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

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Was not jesus an extremist for love: "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." was not amos an extremist for justice: "let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." was not paul an extremist for the christian gospel: "i bear in my body the marks of the lord jesus."

To follow jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. to follow jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from jesus, formed by the influence of jesus. to follow jesus means that we can't separate what jesus is saying from what jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. to follow jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (the way of jesus, eugene h. peterson, 22).

I take a very simple view that a violent extremist at some point previously been an extremist, and by definition is an extremist, so you do need to look at that non-violent extremism.

Relationship is action, is it not? action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. the understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. the ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. i make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. they don't consider them a nuclear threat. but let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose [such a development]. where is the justice in that?

The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. obviously i do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.

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