But the new rebel is a sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything, He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind, and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it.
G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, Orthodoxy, The Suicide of Thought, (Dover Publications, 2004, p. 33)
Should a Christian be a revolutionist? What is the right way to go about changing society?
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The legacy of Doctor King speaks to what a modern day prophet/revolutionist might look like.
ReplyDeleteCertainly he is a good example in this respect.
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