@VividVoid_ You sacralize 'inevitability' as permanence. Sure, the Buddha couldn't stop war. Clearly, it wasn't his time. Doesn't mean *we* can't do it *now*. Consider a path of change in an evolving universe, perhaps. Consider the redemption of the future from the power of history. Gassho.
@henryjkwallis @johnmilbank3 'Defense', the mantric refrain of all good religious war pimps, whatever flag they march for. Look! We've finally reached a fork in the evolutionary road where blowing it, yet again, isn't a default option. Our world has more important issues to address than early-stage religion.
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Copy of tweet thread here: It really is interesting how many people think the incarnation did nothing to alter our conception of God, but merely ratified what we already knew. Why bother? 2,000 bloody years, for Chrissakes. You'd think we could have got it sorted out by now. The Issue, self-evidently, not what folk believe, rather the endless negation, deferral and loop of the spat itself. A fresh start, then? Put the rubber to the Incarnational road