RT @nick_routledge: @richvillodas Wink: "The passion that drove the early Christians was fired above all by relief at being liberated from the delusions being spun over them by the Powers." In a form of world 'exorcism' as Rev. Dr. Lewis calls it, the Messiah effectively vaporizes a vast, diabolical enchantment.
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Copy of Jun 26, 2024 tweet here: And copy of Jun 3, 2024 tweet, image and quote tweet here:
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick citing Wink and Whiteley Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1805959597016125480 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @BrianZahnd Once the Powers and Church moved _in_, we became Kingdom-blind. We could have an unquestionably authentic religious experience of rebirth yet remain possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by "the demonic complex" (Whiteley). t.co/A4SpR1d1Dg
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1797685455934386304 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Temenosis Perhaps it's timely to ask to what degree all of us have been 'NPC-ed' by the peak deception of a monolithic caricature of reality-in-actuality, and the immense array of epistemologies and institutions its all-pervasive optics exclusively represent, validate and secure? t.co/kjmbhwVrSA
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1657345411517136898 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @johnrobb 2/ Then again, a culturally-constructed Spectacle passing for substantive reality is hardly news; nor, for that matter, is the dark sorcery of veiled powers commanding us to be fooled by appearances - ravenous wolves disguised as angels of light. There is another way, of course. t.co/D4ez37mP27
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting John Moriarty Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1796194645547851986 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Sophiologist_ 1/2 That was glorious. As for endings and beginnings, John Moriarty's "the Second Coming is but a better understanding of the First Coming", now has me imagining the transcendent shock of the Parousial Hour or Day of the Eschatological Event as, at heart, a spell-breaking event. t.co/X5v1cfuNvD
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1396474017280790531 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @moshik_temkin To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.
Open original document@trippfuller 8/ Though his primary theological referent was Jewish messianism, Christian eschatology provided Benjamin his core theo-political motif encompassing the supreme danger and overwhelming impetus of a totalitarian Death Cult clearly replicating in the monstrous revenant of our time.
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Copy of tweet, image and quote tweet here: And, Fintan O’Toole: "A false notion of greatness must be given a decent burial. If there is really to be a new creation, there must be no doubt that the old world is dead." And Benjamin: “The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he also comes as the vanquisher of Antichrist." 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 Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the blessing of the new creation in which righteousness and justice dwells"; the solidarity of social and planetary renewal; the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection; 'the best is yet to come.'