@seenunseenmag 12/ An export trail? Breivik importing US CN to Norway; Christchurch echoing Breivik; Christian militias ethnically cleansing Muslims in the CAR. And behind them: the Protestant Klan; Afrikaner nationalism; Ulster unionism; and Maronite, Serbian and Croatian ethnonationalisms.
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Copy of tweet thread here: Christianity without transcendence degenerates into politics. Politics without religion aspires to transcendence. 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.
@jasonhickel A notable sequel, the evangelical auxiliary of American power. By the 1980s, U.S. evangelical groups were helping sanctify the order the 1954 coup created—championing Ríos Montt as a “brother in Christ,” and the genocide he effectively led as a crusade against communism.
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