@RDGStout The 'unintelligent' hardly monopolize certainty strapped to starvation of conscience. Consider Thiel & Co.—vaunted brilliance as Lucifer's own venture: light bent to venture-backed paranoia, scapegoating industrialized as statecraft, persecution as product-market fit.
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Copy of tweet here: "You'd think that, if you educate people, they'd stop scapegoating. Yet all I see is that scapegoating becomes more sophisticated among intellectuals. Without a contemplative mind, education just gives you better reasons for your dualistic rationalizations."
@MassimoFaggioli The tell is built in. Theology thin as a receipt. Fear posing as sacrament, control transubstantiated into virtue, security in ecclesial drag—the “katechon” as eschatological delay behind a billing stack, sovereignty on autopay, empire stabilized by subscriptions, not conviction.
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