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@tenshi_anna @saturnine_grace Thank you for that, Anna.

Copy of tweet: @nick_routledge Certain it is that the empirical everydayness of late-stage Spectacle is an enchantment. W. Wink: "The passion that drove the early Christians was fired above all by relief at being liberated from the delusions being spun over them by the Powers. Being thus freed..." 1 Cor. 15:24 Once the Powers and Church moved _in_, we became Kingdom-blind. We could have an unquestionably authentic religious experience of rebirth yet remain possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by "the demonic complex"
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Copy of tweet: @nick_routledge Certain it is that the empirical everydayness of late-stage Spectacle is an enchantment. W. Wink: "The passion that drove the early Christians was fired above all by relief at being liberated from the delusions being spun over them by the Powers. Being thus freed..." 1 Cor. 15:24 Once the Powers and Church moved _in_, we became Kingdom-blind. We could have an unquestionably authentic religious experience of rebirth yet remain possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by "the demonic complex"

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Nov 2025

@jonmsweeney We can go further. James 2:19: "the devils also believe [in God]." Saying “Lord, Lord” is easy, but belief that does not unmask the false sacred is one of its most pernicious disguises, closer to demonic assent than to the holiness it names. Hell is full of accurate theologians.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Zheschool This is where WWJD ceases to be pious slogan and becomes structural. 1 John 3:8 offers no calculus by which the works of the evil spirit may be regulated, rationed or spent for some greater good. The Messiah, in whom reality arrives in its fullness, comes to destroy them.Quoted by@Zheschool This is where WWJD ceases to be pious slogan and becomes structural. 1 John 3:8 offers no calculus by which the works of the evil spirit may be regulated, rationed or spent for some greater good. The Messiah, in whom reality arrives in its fullness, comes to destroy them.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @AimeTim Many theologians profess to stand with the victim; Girard’s point is that the scapegoat mechanism operates beneath profession. That’s not so much a peer review comment as a prophet’s charge—that those complicit with sacred violence cannot redeem by technique, only by metanoia.Quoted by@AimeTim Many theologians profess to stand with the victim; Girard’s point is that the scapegoat mechanism operates beneath profession. That’s not so much a peer review comment as a prophet’s charge—that those complicit with sacred violence cannot redeem by technique, only by metanoia.