@AimeTim 1/ No wonder the advent of a global, moral fusion movement remains occulted to mindsets defined by political and religious parochialism. Its version of perception and liberating activity so fully casts irrelevancy upon dominative secular and religious worldviews. @unitethepoor
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Copy of tweet and QT: The true measure of a revolutionary renewal in the ontological status of humanity and our world, is that it encompasses our Wholeness. Consequently, we rise not as a political or religious category, but as a planetary movement transcending all cultural or religious containment. Image: Whatever this new emerging meta-movement is, it is bigger than any single religion. In fact, it is bigger than religion as a whole. It issues an invitation, perhaps even an ultimatum, to all religions, all economies, all educational and political systems, all arts and trades, all sciences and technologies, everything. It is, we might say, a spiritual movement that encompasses everything… Quote Tweet Hardly news, even as the illuminating recognition that no one culture, creed, philosophy, religion, nation or otherwise can save us, inevitably requires a planetary reckoning with an inclusive eschatology. We're saved, finally, by the beauty and brilliance of our…
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Whaddayaknow Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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. t.co/azMrER1x9I
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Brueggemann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 5 The claim Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet and image; 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. Image 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
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: True Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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?
Open original document@holdengraber Wonderful. And notable, his echo of Girard that no political force is capable of creating a new path forward. Our challenge, yes, far greater than politics is equipped to address even as worldly powers will clearly not surrender their caricature of realism for the common good.
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