RT @nick_routledge: @nils_gilman Whaddayaknow? The 'cultured despisers' (Schleiermacher) of religious dogma, superstition, fanaticism and false consciousness note a secular correlative. Not that similarities end there. Paraphrasing Durkheim, we're never more religious than when we think we've overcome religion.
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Copy of tweet: 5/ Brueggemann: “The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim...” 12:12 PM 8/13/20
@MintPressNews @ChrisLynnHedges True. Where materialist fundamentalism represents but the flip-side of precisely the same coin. What form then, a summons transcending the secular and religious symbiosis of an Extinction Tyranny imagining itself as the highest ground of necessity, probity and significance?
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