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• We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Distance, Practice

  Jacques Ellul (2011). “The Subversion of Christianity”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

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  Men, Progress, Razors

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner,, 1965.

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• It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

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  Spiritual, Fighting, Numbers

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• There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

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  Law, Giving, Excellence

  Jacques Ellul (2009). “Money and Power”, p.110, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or production, are facts, we must worship them as facts, and we must try to adapt ourselves to them. This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat, which are only expressions of the great modern divinity, the Moloch of fact.

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  Heart, Thinking, Race

  "The Presence of the Kingdom" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Olive Wyon, Seabury paperback, (p. 37), 1967.

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• True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!

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  Reality, Choices, Individuality

  "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 139, 1964.

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• God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.

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  Prayer, Character, Giving

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• I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of "anarchism" (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).

  Jacques Ellul

  Kings, Teaching, Biblical

  "The Subversion of Christianity" by Jacques Ellul, translated by G. Bromiley, (p. 116), 1986.

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• The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

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  Ideas, Action, Propaganda

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner, 1965.

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• Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

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  Hate, Pride, Levers

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner,, 1965.

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• Es la aparición de los medios de comunicación de masas lo que hace posible el uso de técnicas de propaganda a escala social.

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  Media, Technique, Use

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

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  Cristiano, Oración, Hombres

  Jacques Ellul, Geoffrey W. Bromiley (2011). “The Judgment of Jonah”, p.23, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position ­ that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.

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  Cristiano, Personas, Religión

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• Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

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  Men, Light, Technique

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 142), 1964.

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• (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

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  Character, Two, Manipulation

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• Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and most precious feelings. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve. It must therefore utilize the most common feelings, the most widespread ideas, the crudest patterns, and in so doing place itself on a very low level with regard to what it wants man to do and to what end. Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

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  Odio, Orgullo, Hombres

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• Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

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  Taken, Civilization, Technique

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• Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world.

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  Technology, Play, World

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner, Vintage Books, New York, (p. xvii), 1973.

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• Fate operates when people give up

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  Giving Up, Fate, People

  Jacques Ellul, Madeleine Garrigou-Lagrange (1982). “In season, out of season: an introduction to the thought of Jacques Ellul”, Harper San Francisco

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• Puedo muy bien decir sin vacilar que todos los que tienen poder político, aunque lo utilicen bien lo han adquirido por mediación demoníaca y aunque no sean conscientes de ello, son adoradores de diabolos.

  Jacques Ellul

  Political, Use, Politics

  "Si tu es le Fils de Dieu" by Jacques Ellul, (p. 76), 1991.

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• Sea cual sea el poder de Dios, el primer aspecto de Dios nunca es el del Amo absoluto, el Todopoderoso. Es el del Dios que se pone a nuestro nivel humano y se limita.

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  Levels, May, Matter

  Jacques Ellul (2011). “Anarchy and Christianity”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

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  Spiritual, Downgrading, Violence

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• Los medios de comunicación de masas constituyen el vínculo esencial entre el individuo y las exigencias de la sociedad tecnológica.

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  Media, Links, Demand

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• Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

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  God Love, Hell, God Is Love

  Jacques Ellul, Madeleine Garrigou-Lagrange (1982). “In season, out of season: an introduction to the thought of Jacques Ellul”, Harper San Francisco

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• In reality this is the very reverse of what we are told about the biblical God, who opens up freedom for us, who lets us make our own history, who goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures that we concoct.

  Jacques Ellul

  Adventure, Biblical, Unheard

  "The Subversion of Christianity".

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