@alerwee @tenshi_anna Yes. Exceptionalism cannot be argued down, only revealed at scale: the "eschatological–interpretive horizon" of 'apocalypsis'—planetary parousia-ontogenesis—including and transcending the architectonic orders, containment and limits of inherited secular and religious imaginaries.
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Tweet: 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! 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." 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 And tweet here: and end/ Cultivation becomes consummation; the shared future ignites. What was tended in hope now flares into the world ablaze with unveiled meaning. In the end, Revelation isn’t a distant doctrine but a felt convergence—truth with heft opening a new dimension for all to walk in. Quote tweet: No priest, pandit, or mullah sanctions the messianic. No politician, pundit, or scholar gives assent. It arrives without permission—healing, yes, but also riding against the dragon’s throne, the official mythos, the Antichrist consensus, the entire order keeping it all intact.
Open original document@SohrabAhmari @TradVat2 No madness binds like the false sacred: desire unaware of its own hostility, aggression haloed as faithfulness, a theological blind reading its violence as purity, and dissent as deformation. This is not only error; it's hostility reinforced at the highest ontological register.
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Tweet: The Jewish charge that the messiah has not yet come because the world is not yet redeemed is wholly consistent with the parousial initiation of a unicity in which we include and complete one another. Besides, religious - never mind Abrahamic - exceptionalism is an ontic archaism. What if only in such intensifications between highly diverse cosmovisions can the vicious cycle ultimately give way to a vital circle - to a novel, planetarian symbiote of revelation set within a common horizon of hope and its expectation of an ultimate communion of eternal life? As if the exceptionalism a nation, religion or culture believes it has, can somehow evade a crowning planetary authority revealing a new and vital coherence transcending the mimetic crisis of chronically malignant fictions and fabrications sustaining the entire, global shebang. 1/3 It pays to acknowledge our littleness, perhaps. Reality far transcends Christian enclosure. The second, as first, advent announces an ontic novelty incontestably more generous than the momentum of social, cultic or political associations - indeed, of temporality itself. 2/ The fallacy, pardonable. For the most part, the Church's interpretation of the sunburst of the messianic remains shockingly threadbare relative to, say, other traditions - an oversight reflecting, in part, an occupational bias favoring the First Coming over the Second. Quote tweet: Moltmann, Agamben, Illich and Cayley likewise aver "messianic eclipse" (Benjamin) an aggregate goal of all religious and secular systems hanging upon a Judgment Deferral Complex; and such catastrophic permanency checked only in the game-ending irruption of a "messianic arrest.
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