“Jesus find the same mistake in both the Saducees and the Pharisees, both those who collaborate with the Romans and those who oppose them. In the eyes of Jesus they are both wrong. He will not play any part in the political drama.”

— Jacques Ellul

Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), p. 115

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French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994

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