"there is no escaping the social logic of authority. Compassion has to include judgement and all the catch-phrases about 'non-judgemental compassion' are a sentimental gloss on the Gospels. Vast harm is done by the refusal to exercise judgement, just because it makes you feel good."
David Martin as interviewed by Rupert Shortt in God's advocates: Christian thinkers in conversation (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005), 157.
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