Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@RichardRohrOFM Ungoverned by religion, nor rivaled by politics, incarnation detonates the wall between God and history, inaugurating a new stratum of reality for all to walk in, embodied as the common life of the world—kinship beyond every earthly throne: messianic reign without rule. Live it!

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9/ Benjamin may find his closest contemporary counterpart in the Iranian, Ali Shari’ati, who similarly affirms that neither politics nor religion alone suffice to furnish the world a means of liberation and redemption involving the fusion of their respective messianic traditions.

The New Testament. Cayley: "What is revealed in the New Testament, according to Illich, is a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment."

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4/ Turning the page. "Jesus is not the creator of another religion but the victor over religion. He is not the maker of another law but the conqueror of law. He is the end of religion, above Christianity and non-Christianity." - #PaulTillich
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Copy of tweets here: 9/ Benjamin may find his closest contemporary counterpart in the Iranian, Ali Shari’ati, who similarly affirms that neither politics nor religion alone suffice to furnish the world a means of liberation and redemption involving the fusion of their respective messianic traditions. The New Testament. Cayley: "What is revealed in the New Testament, according to Illich, is a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment." Quote tweet: 4/ Turning the page. "Jesus is not the creator of another religion but the victor over religion. He is not the maker of another law but the conqueror of law. He is the end of religion, above Christianity and non-Christianity." - #PaulTillich

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 23 Sept 2025

@NatureSchoolSU @WifeMamaHome @RizomaSchool 2/ The Spell? Mistaking our maps for reality—not just a mistake in thinking, but total civilizational inversion of the organizing principle—the representational copy rules the represented original. We don't just get the ontic hierarchy wrong: the moral order is itself flipped.

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1/2 #JianweXun: "What's at stake isn't just our political systems but our capacity for sovereignty over our own perception. The real battle isn't between different ideologies but between different architectures of consciousness."

end/ A cartoon caricature functionally enculturating as mass consciousness was predictable, I suppose, given how thoroughly secular modernity constitutes a P$eudo-Event. But the question remains. Does there exist a 'more real' Reality to hand and, crucially, how may we access it?
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Copy tweet thread here: 1/2 #JianweXun: "What's at stake isn't just our political systems but our capacity for sovereignty over our own perception. The real battle isn't between different ideologies but between different architectures of consciousness." end/ A cartoon caricature functionally enculturating as mass consciousness was predictable, I suppose, given how thoroughly secular modernity constitutes a P$eudo-Event. But the question remains. Does there exist a 'more real' Reality to hand and, crucially, how may we access it?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @riyeff @BremenBod @MassimoFaggioli Ultimately, the arc ripens into a messianic claim—judgment, mercy, liberation—that gathers up and surpasses Abrahamic registers, reaching beyond “religion” altogether. Benjamin remains our patron saint in that regard, even as the image is now planetary, the text not yet in print.Quoted by@riyeff @BremenBod @MassimoFaggioli Ultimately, the arc ripens into a messianic claim—judgment, mercy, liberation—that gathers up and surpasses Abrahamic registers, reaching beyond “religion” altogether. Benjamin remains our patron saint in that regard, even as the image is now planetary, the text not yet in print.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis The crisis isn't left and right. It's politics as metaphysical cosplay—brand choreography severed from where meaning has to land. And the polis, famished for transcendence, is fed what? Democracy as pornography: desire circulated without consummation, spirit without incarnation.Quoted by@lukeburgis The crisis isn't left and right. It's politics as metaphysical cosplay—brand choreography severed from where meaning has to land. And the polis, famished for transcendence, is fed what? Democracy as pornography: desire circulated without consummation, spirit without incarnation.