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This eschatological understanding of a violent Second Coming leads us to believe that in the end, even God finds it impossible to fix the world apart from violence and coercion\u2026 If we remain charmed by this kind of eschatology, we will be forced to see the nonviolence of the Jesus of the Gospels as a kind of strategic fake-out, like a feigned retreat in war, to be followed up by a crushing blow of so-called redemptive violence in the end. The gentle Jesus of the First Coming becomes a kind of trick Jesus, a fake-me-out Messiah, to be replaced by the true jihadist Jesus of a violent Second Coming. This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John\u2019s Apocalypse, are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Gerencser shared this insightful quote from Brian McLaren\u2019s book\u00a0Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope: This eschatological understanding of a violent Second Coming leads us to believe that in the end, even God finds it impossible to fix the world apart from violence and coercion\u2026 If we remain charmed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,136,139],"tags":[3143,5677,5718,5720,8194,10990,13396],"class_list":["post-13001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eschatology-theology","category-evangelicals","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-eschatology-theology","tag-jesus","tag-jihad","tag-jihadist","tag-non-violence","tag-second-coming","tag-violent"],"yoast_head":"\n
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