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RT @nick_routledge: @MassimoFaggioli If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 12 Apr 2019

Called 'anti-Christ' (despite “the risk [of] being taken for a fundamentalist preacher in applying [this] monstrously churchy term"- #IvanIllich) this perversion of the Gospel imperative is, naturally, nowhere more fully demonstrated than by our very own religious. 2/

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Quoted by@ShaneClaiborne The Planetary Christ laying the smack down on the cursed exceptionalism of the Nordic Christ, in a statement issuing from the Holy Land, the Gospel's epicenter, the very birthplace of Christianity? It had to happen.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @JYSexton 1/ True. And let’s frame it within a larger context. Our challenge relates to a dominative image of the Nordic Christ throughout American Christianity and also, by extension, its danger to the world. Have you been noting trends in American Catholicism, of late, for example?Quoted by@JYSexton 1/ True. And let’s frame it within a larger context. Our challenge relates to a dominative image of the Nordic Christ throughout American Christianity and also, by extension, its danger to the world. Have you been noting trends in American Catholicism, of late, for example?