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RT @nick_routledge: @Plough @jamesrwoodtheo Anti-Christ is precisely this: Christ’s names, Caesar’s methods—cross-and-flag nationalism claiming salvific power without the Paschal path.

Copy of tweet here: 2/ German Nazi Party electioneers at Mary's Church (Marien Kirche) in Neuenmarkt, Bavaria, Germany, 23 July, 1933. -- Luther Day celebrations, German Evangelical Church, Berlin Palace, 1933. Joachim Hossenfelder speaking. [Images] end/ Some see the writing on the wall. @UniteThePoor, four years ago: "...an extremist religious and Christian nationalist agenda deliberately diverts attention from the key issues and challenges facing the majority of Americans..." So, how's the historical trend shaping up?
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Copy of tweet here: 2/ German Nazi Party electioneers at Mary's Church (Marien Kirche) in Neuenmarkt, Bavaria, Germany, 23 July, 1933. -- Luther Day celebrations, German Evangelical Church, Berlin Palace, 1933. Joachim Hossenfelder speaking. [Images] end/ Some see the writing on the wall. @UniteThePoor, four years ago: "...an extremist religious and Christian nationalist agenda deliberately diverts attention from the key issues and challenges facing the majority of Americans..." So, how's the historical trend shaping up?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Jan 2026

@Plough_espanol 3/ Fascist religion is always “renewal” talk: rebirth, restoration, cleansing, providential leaders—will-to-power dressed as holiness, paranoia as discernment, and cruelty as "courage"; the counterfeit messianism of apocalypse without repentance, and salvation without the Cross.

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Quoted by@seenunseenmag 18/ Beneath talk of “demographic neglect” lie communities facing rapid change while feeling unseen, culturally unmoored and abandoned by those in power. The grievance is genuine. And it's here that religious nationalism supplies a compelling soteriology of the state as saviour.Quoted by22/ Jesus keeps saying his disciples do not hear him. Not because his message lacks coherence, but because messianic disclosure unseats hearing itself, dissolving both worldly reduction and religious fetishism at once—twin evasions of what obedience to love actually costs.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @trippfuller The psychodynamics of religious fascism are self-sealing, generating ultimacy through a chronic moral inversion—victim-vanishing bearing the contradictions of the whole. And because invisibility is constitutive, "reform" lands as a category error. Hence: no reform, only rupture.Quoted by@trippfuller The psychodynamics of religious fascism are self-sealing, generating ultimacy through a chronic moral inversion—victim-vanishing bearing the contradictions of the whole. And because invisibility is constitutive, "reform" lands as a category error. Hence: no reform, only rupture.