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And in this, a powerful correspondence with Fromm’s notion of the messianic event as the product of a this-worldly, historical, human effort, differing dramatically from the catastrophic messianism of, say, Benjamin, Marcuse and Scholem. Frankly, I don’t see why it can’t be both. Because. Because. It has taken until now to realize the staggering anthropological and co-evolutionary significance of the Cross because the moral, intellectual, and epistemological effects of the Gospel revelation have of necessity developed gradually. 13/ Nick Routledge · Last words, from Rene Girard: “...beyond all that disfigures it in our eyes, the truth of the victim that we at last possess is the greatest, most fortunate event in the history of religion and the whole of humanity.”  /end Quote tweet: Baptist Metz: “Will we actually allow [Auschwitz] to be the end point, the disruption which it really was, the catastrophe of our history, out of which we can find a way only through a radical change of direction achieved via new standards of action?" The answer, clearly, was no. When religious culture has become complacent, when it has taken its symbols and myths too literally, when its understanding of God is too narrow, the dynamic forces in the God archetype turn against the constructs of religion and overturn them.~David Tacey Gita 4:7-8 Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata, And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ; For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age. Quote tweet: Significant, the Palestine catastrophe prompting the worldwide advent of a truly trans-cultural moral movement transcending the deranged imaginaries and limits of the ethno-nationalist matrix and its full-spectrum, planetary dominance over the moral and ontological imagination