@Plough @OBEhizele You name the wound well, Jide: thin citizenship cannot bear the weight of belonging. But the Christian answer is not to thicken the nation into a sacred object. It is to receive and inhabit a Kingdom that relativizes every nation while teaching us how to love place rightly.
@seenunseenmag 23/ The entanglement of sacral English nationhood and Abrahamic prophetology runs deeper than most realize. Blake's New Jerusalem names it—not English triumphalism dressed in light, but planetary reconciliation breaking through a particular, historically freighted aperture.
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end/ Perhaps unsurprisingly, conception of the Eliatic function remains fractured within the Abrahamic complex—few are familiar with the emergent principle of planetary prophetological unity, and fewer still are willing to relinquish the exceptionalist claims precluding it. 30/ The unveiled real does not ask for alignment; it is realignment itself. Every knee bows not because freedom is violated but because the infrastructure protecting denial dissolves. Truth doesn't force recognition—it simply becomes inescapable to sight no longer averted. 3/ This is why “just change the theology” is naive and “theology doesn’t matter” is equally so. The gods we confess are late justifications until they become the only language in which a community can hear judgment on its idols and imagine an order beyond its interests. Yes. Exceptionalism cannot be argued down, only revealed at scale: the "eschatological–interpretive horizon" of 'apocalypsis'—planetary parousia-ontogenesis—including and transcending the architectonic orders, containment and limits of inherited secular and religious imaginaries.
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