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@ethicalzac @nils_gilman @totallyfeckless @aufgehendeRest Echoes likewise in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT's principles as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 12 Apr 2019

Expressed in the phrase, 'corruptio optimi quae est pessima', this historical progression by which 'the best becomes the worst,' explains the simultaneous advancement of a dark corruption concommitant to civilization's equally mysterious vocation to betterment. 3/

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RDGStout Illich reliable, here. With the Constantinian concession, we could be authentically 'born again' _and_ be possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end - the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by the vast array of institutions and epistemologies they epistemically secure.Quoted by@RDGStout Illich reliable, here. With the Constantinian concession, we could be authentically 'born again' _and_ be possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end - the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by the vast array of institutions and epistemologies they epistemically secure.Quoted by@RDGStout Illich reliable, here. With the Constantinian concession, we could be authentically 'born again' _and_ be possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) and the vast array of epistemologies and institutions they epistemically secure.Quoted by@helioscomm @RizomaSchool @riversofeurope Well, goodness. Myriad, the ways to answer that one. Only God knows, perhaps. So, there's a Sufi adage: don't waste time with blame, rather, focus on the fix. Likewise, the Daoists: The best way to fight evil? Make energetic progress in the good. Doomer Optimism, in a nutshell?Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM When asked, "Why evil?" Ramskrishna responded, "To thicken the plot." Juergen Moltmann: "That is why the history of Christ is subject to what Ernst Kasemann calls 'the eschatological proviso' and is engraved with the hallmark of eschatological anticipation."Quoted by@SophiaCycles 1/ An intrinsically 'messianic' insight, as it happens.