@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.
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Copy of tweet thread here: To be enlightened is to join an insurgent cell devoted to the destruction of the material world No. To be enlightened is to join an insurgent cell devoted to the destruction of the diabolical will
@tenshi_anna @saturnine_grace Thank you for that, Anna.
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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"