Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis Well, that's the joyless for you, isn't it? Bloch identified Christian cultural denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the Living God among us, here and now, as, in effect, functional atheism. Niffari, in précis: "Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!"

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Feb 2025

@lukeburgis That second page, the cosmic elephant in the room. And yet, religious/spiritual culture is itself often no less estranged from experience or recognition of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power, presence and telos of the Living God, than its most cynical deprecators.

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Quoted by@Plough 2/ Faith is the territory. What Jesus came to teach was an experiential crossing—access to mystery, intelligence, power, telos—arriving not as doctrine but as immanent Kingdom. Faith is not belief refined, but reality opened. Enacted, it opens upon a different order of being.