@lukeburgis end/ A pattern of desire unaware of its own hostility? No finer camouflage than a theological blind, nor logic of religious antagonism more unifying and self-justified than the false sacred cloaked as true. The mimetic escalation of a deeper, genuine Wholeness transcends it all.
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Copy of tweet and QT here: Same on the streets, never mind in the Academy. Let's be honest. It's time for a fresh start. "From time to time, the image of God has to die so not to become an idol. It has to become transparent to transcendence to be renewed." ~ Joseph Campbell Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name. Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution. It’s time to rebuild from the bottom up. end/ And where Ernst Bloch identified the functional atheism of dominative Christian culture’s denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the living God among us, right here, right now, Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari asked, “Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!"
@jbralston Whatever its animating drive, that pivotal lack of humility is precisely what Heschel reckoned with in his nonsense-ending averral that "an eschatological event will be necessary to silence the arrogance of man." Ultimately, an inclusive eschatology serves up a democratic claim.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge; separate Barber, Heschel and Thurman quotations in deeper posts Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Ultimately the Hour / The poor / masses Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: Ultimately, the Hour isn't a promise to comparative theologians such as ourselves, but to the world's poor - of the revelation and liberation of a realm and reign of truth transcending all fictions and polemics sustaining secular, as much as religious, tyranny and division. Copy of tweet and quote tweet: @nick_routledge #WorldDayofthePoor “The poor are all those who have to endure acts of violence and acts of injustice without being able to defend themselves.” @RevDrBarber “Who shall prevent the epidemic of injustice that no Court of Justice is capable of stopping?” #AJHeschel @UniteThePoor Quote Tweet Nick Routledge @nick_routledge "The masses of people live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them?" - #HowardThurman @UniteThePoor
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