@ShaneClaiborne 1/ Evil's perverse capacity lies in its powers to camouflage the 'false sacred' as true - as something like common sense, justice or wisdom (2 Cor. 11:14). Whether in forms conscious or unconscious, secular or religious, “The ability to disguise sin defines Anti-Christ." (Illich)
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‘The final enigma of history is therefore not how the righteous will gain victory over the unrighteous, but how the evil in every good and the unrighteousness of the righteous is to be overcome.’
[Quotation from Reinhold Niebhur’s The Nature of Destiny and Man: II Human Destiny]
[“The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under] the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - Von Balthasar](/media/1723953725721686227-F-y2xgNbwAAnzwf.jpg)
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Copy of thread: ‘The final enigma of history is therefore not how the righteous will gain victory over the unrighteous, but how the evil in every good and the unrighteousness of the righteous is to be overcome.’ [Quotation from Reinhold Niebhur’s The Nature of Destiny and Man: II Human Destiny] [“The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under] the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - Von Balthasar
@jamespoulos Girard, like a thief in the night: "What might happen to our world if the precarious order of false transcendence imposed by the scapegoat mechanism ceases to function?" Rohr: “The True Sacred, which is synonymous with the Reign of God, unmasks and relativizes the false sacred."
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Excerpt from tweet thread: Here’s William James: “...there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness...” “...No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question...At any rate, they forbid our premature closing of accounts with reality." Our prophets, of course, universally anticipate just such a bifurcation point at the planetary level - noospheric consciousness coalescing in a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. Ultimately, Abraham Joshua Heschel notes, “Mystery is surpassed by meaning.”