19/ Apocalypse is the mercy that won’t permit that: it shatters the wall that keeps theology innocent and the alliance that anesthetizes the world. It names the rulers of this age at their point of seizure, breaking their power precisely where it unseals their claim upon reality.
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Copy of tweet here: 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 w@nick_routledge · 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."
@lukeburgis The danger, of course, is swapping one form of entanglement for another—mimicry in new robes. The real wound is deeper—a mimetic architecture of violence so embedded, so internalized, it poses as reality itself. The messianic rends the veil. What history forgets, glory reveals.
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Copy of tweet thread here: 2/ #RenéGirard: "Jesus is not there in order to stress once again in his own person the unified violence of the sacred; he is not there to ordain and govern like Moses..." · 3/ #RenéGirard: "...he is not there to unite a people around him, to forge its unity in the crucible of rites and prohibitions, but on the contrary, to turn this long page of human history once and for all."