Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@millinerd I hear that as a real hesitation, not an evasion, kind sir—and I'd be inclined to ask who built the complexity you're pointing to, because it isn't there in the life and message of Jesus.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 1 Oct 2025

@gilduran76 @WIRED 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.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @firstthingsmag This piece misses the deeper unity of Russia and the West within an anti-Christian metaphysics. Both entrust history to sovereign power and the sanctification of violence as a necessary 'path to peace.' Both generate an abomination they then cite as proof of their necessity.Quoted by@firstthingsmag This piece misses the deeper unity of Russia and the West within an anti-Christian metaphysics. Both entrust history to sovereign power and the sanctification of violence as a necessary 'path to peace.' Both generate an abomination they then cite as proof of their necessity.