@AimeTim Perhaps reconceive our Reckoning Day as a planetary pedagogical method 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?
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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: 1/2 In contemporary vernacular Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SherPoint 1/2 In contemporary vernacular then, the Eschatological Event or 'Day' or 'Hour' represents a form of 'therapeutic intervention' at the planetary level, arresting the existential apostasy of a form of psychotic universalism and the extinction tyranny it functionally entails. t.co/zS6BwIPMhk
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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: 1 Wetiko / Echoes likewise Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: 1/ 'Wetiko' (Algonquian) is how our First Nations Peoples identify the toxic, all-encompassing enormity of this ancient enslavement and the dollarzombiehood, weaponized, of its commoditized mechanics of persuasion, guilt and punishment. A fix? Planetary prophetology names it. Echoes likewise in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT's principles as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.
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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: 1 Essentially Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1862203397027615158 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @UssamaMakdisi 1/ Essentially, we've arrived at a 'paradigm apocalypse' - a reckoning with a form of civilizational exceptionalism characterized by structures of consciousness and power functionally consistent with the rationalizations of a kind of universalized, psychotic absolutism. t.co/Lab5FCNx5L t.co/AVBVTgLe3h
Open original document@Dan_Bowdoin @brianmclaren @BrianZahnd end/ "If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century." - MLK, 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'
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"Jesus was calling for a radical disruption of his religion, a great spiritual migration. A similar disruption and migration are needed no less today in the religion that names itself after Him. - McLaren