@ThinkingFaith Like a thief in the night. Surprise, Illich avers, is the structure of messianic experience. Ultimately, the Eschatological 'Day' or 'Hour' is a promise to Empire as much as to the planetary poor. Not, of course, that a 'Judgment-Deferral Complex' welcomes or announces The Event.
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4/ #Quran: And among humankind are those who say they believe in God and the Last Day but they do not believe. @UniteThePoor 5/ #Quran They try to deceive God and those who believe, but they do not deceive anyone except themselves, although they do not know it. 6/ #Quran: And when they are told not to make trouble on earth, they say that they are only doing good. Is it not that they are in fact the troublemakers without even knowing it? 7/ #Quran And you are not the guide of the blind out of their error; you cannot make anyone hear but those who believe in Our signs and have submitted. And on the day the hour arrives the guilty will swear they only lingered a while; that is how deluded they were. 8/ #Quran And those to whom was given knowledge and faith will say, “In fact you lingered, according to the book of God, until the day of resurrection. And this is the day of resurrection, although you have not perceived.”
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9/ #Quran If you could only see when abusers are stood before their Lord, throwing back allegations at one another. Those who had been despised of will say to the arrogant, “If not for you, we would have been believers!” 10/ #Quran The arrogant will say to the despised, “Did we hold you back from the guidance after it came to you? No, you were the guilty ones.” @UniteThePoor 11/ And the despised will say to the arrogant, “No, it was a plot of the night & the day: you commanded us to deny God, and set up idols as equals to God.” And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, “We reject what you were sent with.”@UniteThePoor 12/ #Quran Assembly of spirits and humanity! Did there not come to you messengers from among you relating My signs and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours?
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13/ #Quran If only disbelievers knew of the time when they cannot ward off the fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be helped! No, it will come upon them unawares, and confound them, so they cannot avert it, and no respite will they have. @UniteThePoor 14/ #Quran And on the day the hour arrives,on that day they will be divided: those who had faith and did good works will be gladdened in a garden… 15/ #Quran while those who disbelieved and repudiated Our signs and the final meeting will be brought to punishment. @UniteThePoor 16/ #Quran 2:136 “Say: We believe in God and that which was revealed unto us, and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ismail, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received and that which the Prophets received from their Lord...” @UniteThePoor end/ #Quran. “...We make no distinctions between any of them, and unto Him we surrender.”@UniteThePoor
@trippfuller end/ The Verus Propheta's primary obstacle? Dominative, global structures of consciousness and power militantly vested in a totalized, symbiotic, existential imperative to eclipse the Messianic. No matter. The supersessive truth of Reality will not be denied nor its Day deferred.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne, October9,2024 Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1892212802536034641 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. It just doesn’t feel like it’s asking too much to want a President who will refuse to support and fund the genocide in Gaza.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Moltmann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1844155682859491482 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ShaneClaiborne Ask in vain, brother. Meanwhile, "the transcendent breaking-in of eternity that plunges all human history into its final crisis" (Moltmann) connotes a crisis only insofar as Christus Victor heralds total planetary liberation from a maniacal catastrophe of religio-political evil. t.co/1XhLYsNpMD
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Paul Holdengraber quoting Walter Benjamin Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1892212802536034641 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. "This is how one pictures the Angel of History. His face is turned to the past. A storm is blowing from Paradise. It has got caught in his wings with such violence the angel can no longer close them. This storm is what we call progress." ~ Walter Benjamin on Klee's Angelus Novus Though his primary theological referent was Jewish messianism, Christian eschatology provided Benjamin a core theo-political motif—the anti-Christ. Not mythology but the System itself—a total machine of illusion, sacrifice and ruin—enthroned as progress, crowning itself destiny. "That things 'just go on' is the catastrophe." ~ Walter Benjamin Benjamin also foresaw the ‘messianic eclipse’ bound within such catastrophic permanency ending in the game-ending 'blast' of a "tempieternal explosion” (Panikkar); a sudden, 'messianic arrest' yoking the architecture of redemptive time to everyday, temporal, political reality. “The crises become “states of permanent exception and emergency,” and a permanent state of exception is, of course, no longer exceptional. Crisis is "our normal state", crisis that never resolves, “no crisis at all”. Why? Because resolving it would end the game. 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick and Walter Benjamin ThesisVI card Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1892212802536034641 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 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. “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’ Subtweet: The Angel of History flew with its own wings. Shortly before his doomed flight, Benjamin entrusted the Klee print - his most treasured possession, he claimed - to Georges Bataille. Then, it found its way to Theodor Adorno and, later, to Benjamin's dear friend, Gershom Scholem. "For the rebirth of messianic thinking out of the catastrophe of Christian humanism in WWI, we are indebted to #martinbuber, #ernstbloch & #franzrosenweig, #walterbenjamin & #theodoradorno, #gershomscholem & #margaretesusman, and after WWII... #karllowith & #jacobtaubes." 1/ "Out of the ruins of historical rationality they rescued hope as a theological category. Without their messianic thinking, eschatology today is literally unthinkable." - The Rebirth of Messianic Thinking in Judaism, 'The Coming of God', Christian Eschatology. #juergenmoltmannn 2/
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Messiah. Image and Calligraphy. Acrylic inks on paper. #nofilter