One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. To be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatism means standing in the flow of the status quo, and the status quo no longer belongs to us . . .
If we want to be fair, we must teach the young to be revolutionaries, revolutionaries against the status quo.
Francis Schaeffer, from “The Church at the End of the 20th Century” in 1970
laurencer
Aug 20 2002
10:40 am
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary. To be conservative today is to miss the whole point, for conservatism means standing in the flow of the status quo, and the status quo no longer belongs to us . . .
If we want to be fair, we must teach the young to be revolutionaries, revolutionaries against the status quo.
Francis Schaeffer, from “The Church at the End of the 20th Century” in 1970