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RT @nick_routledge: @brianmclaren Baptist Metz: “Will we actually allow [Auschwitz] to be the end point, the disruption which it really was, the catastrophe of our history, out of which we can find a way only through a radical change of direction achieved via new standards of action?" The answer, clearly, was no.

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When religious culture has become complacent, when it has taken its symbols and myths too literally, when its understanding of God is too narrow, the dynamic forces in the God archetype turn against the constructs of religion and overturn them.~David Tacey

Gita 4:7-8 Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata,
And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ;
For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers,
For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.
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Copy of tweet here: When religious culture has become complacent, when it has taken its symbols and myths too literally, when its understanding of God is too narrow, the dynamic forces in the God archetype turn against the constructs of religion and overturn them.~David Tacey Gita 4:7-8 Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata, And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ; For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 Nov 2023

@UssamaMakdisi Significant, the Palestine catastrophe prompting the worldwide advent of a truly trans-cultural moral movement transcending the deranged imaginaries and limits of the ethno-nationalist matrix and its full-spectrum, planetary dominance over the moral and ontological imagination.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RobertEllsberg Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction." Rainer Maria Rilke: "God is a direction." Meister Eckhart: "You should observe, and have observed in which direction God urges you most of all to go."Quoted by@RobertEllsberg Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction." Rainer Maria Rilke: "God is a direction." Meister Eckhart: "You should observe, and have observed in which direction God urges you most of all to go."Quoted byNah ist Und schwer zu fassen der Gott. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wichst Das Rettende auch. ~ Friedrich Holderlin, Patmos Near and hard to grasp is the God. But where danger is, grows also that which saves. ~ Friedrich Holderlin, PatmosQuoted byRT @nick_routledge: @AimeTim And in this, a powerful correspondence with Fromm’s notion of the messianic event as the product of a this-worldly, historical, human effort, differing dramatically from the catastrophic messianism of, say, Benjamin, Marcuse and Scholem. Frankly, I don’t see why it can’t be both.Quoted by@AimeTim And in this, a powerful correspondence with Fromm’s notion of the messianic event as the product of a this-worldly, historical, human effort, differing dramatically from the catastrophic messianism of, say, Benjamin, Marcuse and Scholem. Frankly, I don’t see why it can’t be both.