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@totallyfeckless @ethicalzac @nils_gilman @aufgehendeRest The New Testament. Cayley: "What is revealed in the New Testament, according to Illich, is a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Mar 2021

4/ Turning the page. "Jesus is not the creator of another religion but the victor over religion. He is not the maker of another law but the conqueror of law. He is the end of religion, above Christianity and non-Christianity." - #PaulTillich ?s=20

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Quoted by@samhaselby Simplistic. Some aver, as Chesterton, "the Xian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." Others, that Jesus came to end religion, not create one. Gandhi, likewise, drew a clear distinction between Xianity and the Jesus agenda.