@Plough_espanol 1/4 Ethnonationalism inside Christianity “just asking questions” isn’t just inquiry, is it? It's an anti-christic move par excellence—a rival gospel bidding to retrieve ethnonationalism by re-sacralizing tribe and re-licensing sacrifice as sacred exemptions for domination.
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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. Subtweet: 4/ As such, exceptionalism remains an incontrovertible reality: it fixes cosmic orientation, anchors personal and covenant identity and ethics, binds community/power, soothes pluralist vertigo, raises salvation stakes, guards singular theophanies and, not least, pays a salary. Tweet: 6/ Call it what it is: Antichrist costumed as "the good". The diabolical false equivalency of security sold as salvation, violence as virtue, fear as righteousness—in short, the good religious war pimp's Gospel, and Girard's essential point that sanctified violence feels sublime. Subtweet: Exactly. The false freedom of a form of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial making for an infantilized, collective experience of psychological security, serenity and affirmation by concealing the humanity of our victims and the truth about the violence inflicted on them.
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