@carolmaczim @MassimoFaggioli @cwwhiteNCR In terms of truly planetary fundamentals, 'American democracy' in 2024 offers what? A choice for genocide: radical evil. Our alternative to the demonic complex, then? Religion? Loisy: "Jesus announced the Kingdom and it was the Church that arrived." The Kingdom, then. What is it?
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Tweet thread excerpt here: 2/ "We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but the second as well, much more glorious. The first coming was marked by patience; the second brings the crown of a divine kingdom. We look then beyond the first coming to the second.” - Cyril of Jerusalem Quote tweet: "The second coming is but a deeper understanding of the first coming." – Moriarty 3/ "The Savior will not come to be judged again, but to judge those by whom he was judged. His first coming was to fulfill his plan of love, to teach men by gentle persuasion. This time, whether men like it or not, they will be subjects of his kingdom by necessity." - Cyril of J. 4/ Turning the page. "Jesus is not the creator of another religion but the victor over religion. He is not the maker of another law but the conqueror of law. He is the end of religion, above Christianity and non-Christianity." - #PaulTillich
@RDGStout Salve! My childhood (nine years of Latin) was spent avidly walking Roman ruins. Yes, to hell with all Caesars and kings. To hell with Constantinian concessions. "Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex, Rex and principium, exit the whole Shebang, Exeunt omnes." -Wallace Stevens
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Maranatha.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: No single pedagogical / I shouldn't worry / It may help Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1837539646336913670 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweets: Nobody tell him Quote tweet: Nothing can stop Palantir, nothing – Tweet: Belief in history as a self-interested concept, I ask ya. As if the agency immanent to reality itself of the sovereignty, telos and might of the Living God somehow wouldn't have the powers of the air dead center in its sights or, as one #TechTheoBro said to the other, 'Surprise!' No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last. I shouldn't worry about Thiel or his ilk. Ultimately, he represents the precarious order of false transcendence of a demonic-complex unmasked, like a thief in the night, by the closing of an incarnational circuit 'not of (t)his world.' Kingdom Reality for Real takes no prisoners. It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament Greek. It isn't heaven, a futurity, or where we go once we die. Rather, it's close at hand; a break-through into the Realness of _this_ realm; on Earth as it is in Heaven." Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Opening Prayer, Sunday August 25th 2024, Hope in the Grove Baptist Church", "reason": "All words saved exactly, but author byline not pictured or specified by exact saved description. Nick is posting speaker; prayer authorship cannot be assigned from this alone."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Opening prayer, no byline in image Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Opening Prayer / Dear Lord through Amen Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Opening Prayer Sunday August 25th, 2024 Hope in the Grove Baptist Church, Cottage Grove, OR Dear Lord, Let us never forget you sent your Son to fulfill the Law. Give us this day the grace of Your blessing That our understanding may pierce the Mystery of Christ, That we may be led from the shadow of true things To the reality of the Kingdom itself, Out of the desert of sin, through salvation, To a still greater good of holiness Like branches from the eternal vine Bringing forth goodness According to the glorious transformation Of the resurrection process. Your inspired Word is the seed, Lord. Give us ‘Kingdom eyes’, ‘Kingdom ears’, That we might worship you by living your love, Signposts for the whole world Bearing witness to your promise, purpose and will Making all things new. Thy Kingdom come On earth as it is in heaven, Lord. In the name and spirit of Jesus. Amen. Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Opening Prayer, Sunday August 25th 2024, Hope in the Grove Baptist Church", "reason": "All words saved exactly, but author byline not pictured or specified by exact saved description. Nick is posting speaker; prayer authorship cannot be assigned from this alone."}]
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