If Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one's life outside politics, and one's death too: that was the example he set for his followers.J.M. Coetzee
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Most of us, when we think of Jesus and politics and his death and Resurrection, we think only of the political aspects. We forget that Jesus had a lot to say about how to live your life outside of politics and that his death and Resurrection were all political in nature.
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