@RDGStout Thank you, yes. And in that light, given that we are precisely the causal ethno-religio-centricity responsible for originating and maintaining the character and catastrophe that is contemporary Palestine, is it any wonder the burden of peace in the Holy Land is ours to bear, too?
@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.