@BrianZahnd @BKristofferson Great question, Brett. Dispensing with religion-speak: the peacemaking power of the Crucifixion issues from its crowning authority overcoming the complicity between cultures, religions and violence. Simply put, the Prince of Peace ultimately overcomes Christian religion itself.
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Tweet and quote tweet: The New Testament. Cayley: "What is revealed in the New Testament, according to Illich, is a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment." Quote tweet: 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
@AimeTim end/ His concern, he said, not religion, but its anthropology and, as such, the staggering features of Jesus' murder ultimately revealing the only way out of a revolving hall of projections - our "automatic, unconscious, ingrained and mimetic" escalating war of all against all.
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Tweet and quote tweet here: "Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else." ~ @RichardRohrOFM “We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are." ~ C.G. Jung Quote tweet: Hence, Jung: “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our own shadow onto others.” And Richo: “The goal of an evolved consciousness is to take its projections back.”