@Plough 1/3 If Jesus lands as the embodiment of a love seeking to materialize in all ways, the Quran forges a new sense of tawhid, a unity of peace that isn't sameness but honors difference. Keller: "Entangled difference applies as much to interreligious as intercreaturely solidarities."
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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: And how to translate that judgment Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1825921152826618019 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Plough "And how to translate that judgment into an agency immanent to history, one sufficiently powerful to disrupt the rule of capital before nothing remains to be saved, is the great question of all political thought of any real substance in the modern world." So? t.co/whjCQ7vRXp
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Paul J. Pastor quoting C.S. Lewis; Christopher Honey; Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Of all tyrannies / I love Lewis / Precisely Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies ... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end...” — C.S. Lewis I love Lewis (especially A Grief Observed and the Four Loves), but this feels like something said by someone who was never oppressed by robber barons. Precisely. Where the Eschatological Event - by no means a peculiarly Christian phenomenon - ends the cosy, exceptionalist, privilege defining that particular moral code and the perpetual oppression of the world's poor its symbiotic religio-secular apologetics blindly sanction.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Ben Meyer Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Sufis call the human soul Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1880497922892263810 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. “It is my contention that theological language and prophetic call is the only language of justice left to counter the language of the market.” Laurie Zoloth, "The Coming Storm: Climate Change and Jewish Thought", p.29. Sufis call the human soul the 'Nafs Natiqa', the speaking soul. As for the radical devalution of the market, a planetary prophetological wedding of World Soul and Word proclaims "an eschatological state of affairs, a reversal of fortunes and transvaluation of values" - Ben Meyer I am becoming increasingly convinced that the abstract concept of "the economy" is a demonic principality. Not even joking. You're not alone. No matter their era or area of origin, planetary prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’” Quote tweet: 1/2 Forty years ago, investigating a white hot trail of systemic, criminal connivance at stratospheric levels of international finance, the UK's Official Secrets Act shut me down. Then again, in complete defeat, my initiation: I'd seen the truest face of global political economy. “Who will police the police?” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? #juvenal I can answer that question. No one. My first career? Journalism, with a specialist interest in oversight of the international financial system. 2/2 “Notes and References 10. Nick Routledge, ‘How The Bank of England Failed The JMB Test’, Euromoney, February 1985, pp. 49–56. Google Scholar”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Josiah Hawthorne; Nick Routledge quoting Shoshana Zuboff Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I am becoming / You're not alone Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet thread here: I am becoming increasingly convinced that the abstract concept of "the economy" is a demonic principality. Not even joking. You're not alone. No matter their era or area of origin, planetary prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff Quote tweet: 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’”
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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: 6/ Jesus was executed Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’”
Open original document@leashless 'Severance Day', a classic prophetological motif and echoed, as such, in the characteristically hierophanic guidance of ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib – cousin and son-in-law of Mohammed (PBUH), and the first and father of all other imams. "I am the instigator of the second Flood," he said.
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