5.3. Culture, Violence, and Religion
" The story the Bible tells is how God in Jesus entered the cultural religion of sacred violence, suffered its most horrible side effects and revealed that the mechanism is ungodly and doomed. In the cross, scapegoating violence is shown to be the emperor with no clothes; at the cross God pulled back the curtain to show that the wizard was impotent.”
The Violent Seduction of American Christianity. <While I don’t disagree with him, I don’t think he made this point very well.
Quote from Hardin, Michael (2013-09-26). The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity With Jesus, 2nd Edition Revised and Expanded (Kindle Locations 4103-4105). JDL Press. Kindle Edition.