i’ve just started reading “jesus for president: politics for ordinary radicals” by shane claiborne and chris haw. i’m only into the first chapter, ‘before there were kings and presidents’ and it’s already full of highlights and underlines. the following quote is from the section on the prophets and it hit home to me who the prophets really were (are (and in are – i don’t believe that the prophet of the lds church is a true prophet of God, i believe that people like Dr. King and Emma Goldman were prophets of God):
“Rabbi Abraham Heschel puts it like this: “To us a single act of injustice — cheating in business, exploitation of the poor — is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence; to us, an episode, to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world (Heschel, 2003, p. 4).” After all, a lot is at stake. And sometimes it takes just one voice to interrupt the pattern of injustice (p. 40).”
Heschel, A. (2003). The Prophets, 5th ed. Peabody, MA: Prince Press.
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