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@RichardRohrOFM Clearly, if we have a future, there's a choice to be made. What's it to be, then? A suicidal cataclysm of materialist and religious fetishism, or the world-renewing truth of the Messiah's example and message? The irrecusable catastrophe of the false sacred, or a fresh start?

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Quoted by@johnwthomson01 @Sophiologist_ You're right. It doesn't just 'happen.' Clearly there's still a choice to be acted upon, isn't there? Girard declares it: "a perfectly straightforward and even scientifically calculable choice between total destruction and the total renunciation of violence." A total volte-face.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @sssfCommunity Yes. No one 'owns' the actual Jesus agenda. Nor is the sunburst of the messianic a peculiarly 'Christian' event. A fully incarnational calling to world resurrection transcends the self-definitions of any one community, nation or dispensation. How could it ever be otherwise?Quoted by@sssfCommunity Yes. No one 'owns' the actual Jesus agenda. Nor is the sunburst of the messianic a peculiarly 'Christian' event. A fully incarnational calling to world resurrection transcends the self-definitions of any one community, nation or dispensation. How could it ever be otherwise?