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@RizomaSchool 6/ Grace does not reward deprivation; it reclaims its residue. Where people are denied the buffers of control, a deeper anchoring becomes possible: encounter with a different order of being—a trust truer than the polished certainties that pose as faith but can run without God.

It's what brainwashing looks like in church clothes. Cut off from the real hunger that makes faith honest, we mistake the props for God—popularity gets sainted, reach gets called evangelism, and “truth sets you free” devolves into team slogan. Egregoric blindness on autopilot.
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It's what brainwashing looks like in church clothes. Cut off from the real hunger that makes faith honest, we mistake the props for God—popularity gets sainted, reach gets called evangelism, and “truth sets you free” devolves into team slogan. Egregoric blindness on autopilot.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Apr 2025

@TGrudi @jonmsweeney @josephnollasj Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.” Hence faith lives for the poor as it cannot for those sustained by certainties landing, in effect, as a form of embodied atheism. How we get there is where we arrive.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Plough @mair__wright The missing complement is Jesus’ promise to the poor. Faith is not only confidence that the faithful soul is already “right with the universe,” but dynamic participation in the eschatological pressure by which reality reasserts its grain against a civilization bent on extinction.Quoted by@Plough @mair__wright The missing complement is Jesus’ promise to the poor. Faith is not only confidence that the faithful soul is already “right with the universe,” but dynamic participation in the eschatological pressure by which reality reasserts its grain against a civilization bent on extinction.