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1 " All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows "
― Martin Luther King Jr. , Letter from the Birmingham Jail
2 " For example, when Christians discuss sex, it often sounds as if we are somehow " against sex" . What we fail to make clear is that sexual passion (the good gifts of God's creation) is now subservient to the demanding business of maintaining a revolutionary community in a world that often uses sex as a means of momentarily anesthetizing or distracting people from the basic vacuity of their lives. When the only contemporary means of self-transcendence is orgasm, we Christians are going to have a tough time convincing people that it would be nicer if they were not promiscuous. "
3 " You're right that not everything we do has to have some kind of social agenda, but that doesn't mean it can only be anesthetizing crap. "
― Brian K. Vaughan , Motherland (Y: The Last Man, #9)
