The God Who Riots Quotes

“Using Christianity to colonize usually backfires eventually because colonized peoples end up discovering that the God they were forced to worship is really on their side. They discover that the God of the Bible is a God who frees enslaved people and condemns those who exploit them. The colonized discover that the Christian story is a story of a God saving people like them from the type of people that forced Christianity on them.”
― Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

“The best way Christians can fulfill the work of the reign of God today is to participate in the work of abolition.”
― Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

“Jesus was arrested and executed because of the trouble he was stirring up in Jerusalem. The story of Jesus shutting down the temple describes a planned demonstration and a riot, complete with property destruction, looting, and social unrest.”
― Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

“We can either use our faith to empower us to transform the world or use our faith to justify the world as it is.”
― Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

“A den of robbers is not where people are robbed. A den of robbers is where robbers hide, expecting to be safe.”
― Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

“I've always suspected that Jesus was way more radical than the Christians I grew up around could comprehend.”
― Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus