@Dan_Bowdoin And, of course, its Shadow. Pastor Wilhelm Rehm, Oct 5, 1933: "Hitler would not have been possible without Martin Luther." I see @Calcalistech estimates the USA has funded roughly 70% of Israel's war costs since Oct 7. Not so much the Nordic Christ's lifeline as its death rattle.
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An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians From change.org The Planetary Christ laying the smack down on the cursed exceptionalism of the Nordic Christ, in a statement issuing from the Holy Land, the Gospel's epicenter, the very birthplace of Christianity? It had to happen. If I may interject? “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 ... 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, | don’t see why it can’t be both.
@holdengraber Fleeing Paris, Benjamin entrusted the Angelus Novus print to Georges Bataille for safekeeping. He handed his 'Theses on the Concept of History' to Hannah Arendt in Marseilles, where she was in hiding, having already escaped the Gestapo in Germany and an internment camp in France.
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“For the Messiah arrives not merely as the Redeemer; he also arrives as the vanquisher of the Anti-Christ. The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.” Walter Benjamin, Thesis VI, ‘Theses on the Concept of History’