Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@TGrudi @jonmsweeney @josephnollasj Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.” Hence faith lives for the poor as it cannot for those sustained by certainties landing, in effect, as a form of embodied atheism. How we get there is where we arrive.

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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@RizomaSchool 6/ Grace does not reward deprivation; it reclaims its residue. Where people are denied the buffers of control, a deeper anchoring becomes possible: encounter with a different order of being—a trust truer than the polished certainties that pose as faith but can run without God.