Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/2 Contemporary genocide scholarship, current American trends and the messianic reality of the Eschatological Turn. Part One: a perspective spoken from the steps of #OccupyICE, Portland, OR, July 1, 2018. youtu.be/C5TX3dKM1L8

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Quoted by@seenunseenmag 13/ And of course no account of modern Christian nationalism is complete without consideration of the German churches of the 1930s and the Third Reich’s calculated attempt to clothe its national project in Christian legitimacy. The precedent could hardly be clearer.Quoted by@trippfuller 🧵1/12 'Opening up a revolutionary chance.' A question. Did Benjamin's messianic/revolutionary thesis ultimately succumb to a Franco-Vichy-Nazi storm uncannily paralleling the global, fascist surge of our time? The gas chambers were, of course, but a year ahead. Context, then.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @omarsuleiman504 @washingtonpost 1/ Genocide scholars will recognize this clear xenophobic incitement crosses a scientifically-acknowledged threshold into #WaPo sanctioned advocacy for ethnic cleansing - a "public incitement to commit genocide", as an ICTR verdict described the crime of Rwandan media figures.Quoted by@omarsuleiman504 @washingtonpost 1/ Genocide scholars will recognize this clear xenophobic incitement crosses a scientifically-acknowledged threshold into #WaPo sanctioned advocacy for ethnic cleansing - a "public incitement to commit genocide", as an ICTR verdict described the crime of Rwandan media figures.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @noonessleep “The greatest radiance anyone can have on earth is truth in works of justice performed in imitation of the Son.” - Hadewijch of Antwerp. “For this purpose, the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the evil spirit.” 1 John 3:8Quoted by@noonessleep “The greatest radiance anyone can have on earth is truth in works of justice performed in imitation of the Son.” - Hadewijch of Antwerp. “For this purpose, the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the evil spirit.” 1 John 3:8Quoted by@ShakiraSecurity ?s=20