@lukeburgis The danger, of course, is swapping one form of entanglement for another—mimicry in new robes. The real wound is deeper—a mimetic architecture of violence so embedded, so internalized, it poses as reality itself. The messianic rends the veil. What history forgets, glory reveals.
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Copy of tweet thread here: 2/ #RenéGirard: "Jesus is not there in order to stress once again in his own person the unified violence of the sacred; he is not there to ordain and govern like Moses..." · 3/ #RenéGirard: "...he is not there to unite a people around him, to forge its unity in the crucible of rites and prohibitions, but on the contrary, to turn this long page of human history once and for all."
@RxOnlyFL @cognazor 'He is Risen’? So what, if our everyday allegiance forsakes the costly obedience of messianic identity for the very powers and principalities Jesus came to exorcise. Loisy saw the counterfeit: “Jesus announced the Kingdom, but it was the Church that arrived.” Come out of her.
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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) by the vast array of institutions and epistemologies they epistemically secure. 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.” 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.