Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@CarlMcColman The challenge, hardly new. The great majority of conscious folk I encounter regard us as irrelevant, toxic, and part of the problem rather than solution. Who can blame them when the Church itself has effectively banished the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Oct 2021

@CACRadicalGrace @stewartdantec 2/ Hardly a surprise. Islam, for one, emerged as a direct response to such Church-centered distortions and mutilations - concessions to Constantine, Hartmann’s ‘westering of spirit’, supremacism, war, schism, rupture, persecution, empires, rank misrepresentation of the Gospel...

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RichardRohrOFM In reality, it didn't take long at all for 'the Church' to effectively forsake messianic ontology for a religious science of containment. No matter. The involvement of God in history isn't a concept: no religion or system can own the visible and carnal presence of the God-force.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM In reality, it didn't take long at all for 'the Church' to effectively forsake messianic ontology for a religious science of containment. No matter. The involvement of God in history isn't a concept: no religion or system can own the visible and carnal presence of the God-force.