@RDGStout Illich reliable, here. With the Constantinian concession, we could be authentically 'born again' _and_ be possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) and the vast array of epistemologies and institutions they epistemically secure.
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There is a joke in which Satan is talking with one of his fallen angels while looking at the foibles of humans on the earth. “What should we do?” implores the helper. “See there, a human has gotten hold of a piece of truth!” Unperturbed, the Prince of Darkness replies, “Don’t worry, these humans will try to institutionalize it, and then it will belong to us again.” Living Your Unlived Life Robert A. JohnsonThere is a joke in which Satan is talking with one of his fallen angels while looking at the foibles of humans on the earth. “What should we do?” implores the helper. “See there, a human has gotten hold of a piece of truth!” Unperturbed, the Prince of Darkness replies, “Don’t worry, these humans will try to institutionalize it, and then it will belong to us again.” Living Your Unlived Life Robert A. Johnson
@ethicalzac @nils_gilman @totallyfeckless @aufgehendeRest Echoes likewise in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT's principles as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.
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