RT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles Curious if you've encountered anyone addressing evil 'psychoanalytically' in evolutionary or 'prophetic' terms, say, 'apocalypsis' as an emergent therapeutic property, transcendently illuminating the existential apostasy or ‘wetiko’ of collective psychosis at the planetary level?
@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