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@RichardRohrOFM @RevDrBarber "It takes just such evil and painful things for the great emancipation to occur." - Friedrick Nietzsche, 'Human, All Too Human'

Copy of tweet thread here: 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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Copy of tweet thread here: 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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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 Mar 2024

@BrianZahnd Yes, and from the get go, Jesus explicitly clarified that misrepresentation of the Gospel would reach its fullest, most perverse and mature expression among whom? The Second Advent does not amount to the rubber stamp we perhaps presume.

Copy of tweet here: "The ability to disguise sin defines Anti-Christ", #IvanIllich and represents the defining feature of this 'mysterium iniquitatis', and how our world is essentially turned topsy-turvy and inside-out through its elaboration in both religious and secular form. 4/ 12:22 PM · Apr 12, 2019
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Copy of tweet here: "The ability to disguise sin defines Anti-Christ", #IvanIllich and represents the defining feature of this 'mysterium iniquitatis', and how our world is essentially turned topsy-turvy and inside-out through its elaboration in both religious and secular form. 4/ 12:22 PM · Apr 12, 2019

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles Hence, no finer camouflage than a moral blind, nor logic of religious antagonism more unifying and self-justified than the false sacred cloaked as true. Thence, the Messianic Day, ending the scapegoat mechanism and the essential complicity between violence, culture and religion.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Hence, no finer camouflage than a moral blind, nor logic of religious antagonism more unifying and self-justified than the false sacred cloaked as true. Thence, the Messianic Day, ending the scapegoat mechanism and the essential complicity between violence, culture and religion.