#262: Mayday Monday – “Engaging the Powers”

“What we see instead is a mounting impatience with the laborious processes of civilized life and a restless eagerness to embrace violent solutions. Better to mete out instant, summary justice than risk the red tape and delays and bumbling of the courts.26 The yearning for a messianic redeemer who will set things right is thus, in its essence, a totalitarian fantasy.”*

“In the service of one's country, the spy is permitted to murder, seduce, lie, steal, commit illegal entry, tap phones without a court order, and otherwise do anything necessary to protect the values of Christian civilization (the James Bond movies, "Mission: Impossible," etc.).”** ____________________________________
*Walter Wink. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (Kindle Locations 337-338). Kindle Edition.
**Ibid (Kindle Locations 344-346).