@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.
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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/1829924113198301512-GWUyRnpbQAElmm8.jpg)
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Copy of tweet: 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) 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
@RichardRohrOFM @RevDrBarber "It takes just such evil and painful things for the great emancipation to occur." - Friedrick Nietzsche, 'Human, All Too Human'
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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."