21/ Often, decisive substitution follows: the summons becomes religion. Messianic demand is rendered as doctrine, role and belonging; the claim contained, the cost deferred—the Kingdom reduced to a holding pattern. We venerate the sign while refusing the reordering it signifies.
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Copy of tweet here: 3/ The deeper question is whether the apocalyptic can break the wall that contains theology itself. The theological world that thinks it owns the gospel will not become true until it exorcises its own immunity, crucified by the same judgment and liberation it proclaims. Quote tweet: 2/ This is not God as background condition, horizon of meaning, or regulative ideal. Not another doctrine, but a change in how the ever-present, living God becomes overtly decisive in creation—a genuinely novel shift in mode, intensity, and visibility of divine action.
@MassimoFaggioli Hesgeth? The counterfeit messianism of apocalypse without repentance, salvation without the Cross. That parasitic inverse is the demonic: keep the name, the symbols, the language, but swap the OS—dress will-to-power as holiness, paranoia as discernment, and cruelty as 'courage'.
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Tweet: 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. 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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