“The word of the church about calling to suffering service, about forgiveness and reconciliation as ways to peace, justice, and new humanity ring false because they are expressed by a church which does not find itself in the proletarian situation and which therefore belongs to a section of society that can use these Christian responses to undercut effective protest against itself. … Revolutionary humanism is the direct descendent of a long tradition in biblical and Christian history which in its increasingly desperate uncertainty needs both the encouragement and the correction of the full Christian gospel. But the words of this gospel are so embedded in the religious culture, against which the revolutionary criticism of religion is a weapon of divine judgment, that not only are the revolutionaries confirmed in their atheism but we ourselves are forced to ask how we may repent of our ideas of deity in order to rediscover the relationship with Christ and our neighbor which we are called to proclaim.”
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