@Plough_espanol 2/ De Lubac's useful because he diagnoses the actual battlefield—sabotaging meaning at root. Persecution is obvious: “they hate us, they attack us.” Falsifying transcendence from-within is subtler and far more effective: keep the name, the symbols, the language—then swap the OS.
@ds_hoffman @BrianZahnd What is genocide, after all? For the distraught personality, the godlike appeal of self-transcending, collective devotion to an ethno-nationalist ideal of unity, redemption and deliverance; the demonic perversion of an authentic yearning for what is rightly called salvation.
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1/ Hence the fundamental nature, role and promise of the political liberator, savior or Great Emancipator, here to revision the bodies, minds and souls of men in a bastardized, religio-nationalist image of the messianic hopes of our times. The transcendent function, perverted. Quote Tweet @nick_routledge Apr 22, 2021 In other words, the bastard appeal of such ethno-nationalist analogs is universally paradigmatic. How then, to effectively address the immense planetary forces encouraging the emergence and powerful enchantment of such personalities and their platforms? facebook.com/100002219988748/posts/1230589060358415/
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2/ Going further still, our root challenge is not so much with American religion as much as it is with the consciousness of religious ethno-nationalism in its entirety, worldwide. @nick_routledge·Dec 8, 20211/ We’re not alone or special in this regard: Crusaders, Jihadists, Zionists, Hindutvavadis, 969ers...everybody’s at it. So, given that the threat such universalism represents is to the entirety of life on earth, perhaps a fix is required and occurs (only) at the planetary level? @nick_routledge·Mar 18, 2021 1/ Perhaps our liberation theology remains as nationalist, blinkered and limiting as our nationalism. We are not the only only ones suffering from this plague: nor are we the only ones God welcomes.