“Consumerism is the dominant worldview of North Americans. As such, it is competing with the kingdom of heaven for the hearts and imaginations of God's people.”

Sec. 34
The Antichrist (1888)

The Cleanest Race (2010) pp. 25–26
2010s
Context: Korean schoolchildren in North and South learn that Japan invaded their fiercely patriotic country in 1905, spent forty years trying to destroy its language and culture, and withdrew without having made any significant headway. This version of history is just as uncritically accepted by most foreigners who write about Korea. Yet the truth is more complex. For much of the country's long history its northern border was fluid and the national identities of literate Koreans and Chinese mutually indistinguishable. Believing their civilization to have been founded by a Chinese sage in China's image, educated Koreans subscribed to a Confucian worldview that posited their country in a position of permanent subservience to the Middle Kingdom. Even when Korea isolated itself from the mainland in the seventeenth century, it did so in the conviction that it was guarding Chinese tradition better than the Chinese themselves. For all their xenophobia, the Koreans were no nationalists.

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 123

Pearls of Wisdom

Exiles (1915), Act II http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/exiles2.html

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

Source: Letters, p. 89

Pearls of Wisdom