Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
RT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles Hey, the Messiah wasn’t nailed to a cross as can(n)on fodder for mythic platitudes. No, the Crucifixion was a political murder heralding the inevitable dissolution of dominative materialist and religious violence foundational to ‘high culture’ cohesion, stability and legitimacy.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 Oct 2021
@scott_m_coley In other words, what is ultimately thrown off by the Crucifixion is the mechanism for maintaining cultural order and psychological stability, “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures,” as Girard describes it.
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