If you see the powers of the world so well disposed, when you see the state, money, cities accepting your word, it is because you word, whether you are only a man of good will or an evangelist, has become false. For it is only to the extent that you are a traitor that the world can put up with you.

—Jacques Ellul, The Meaning of City, trans. Dennis Pardee (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1970), 37.