@profntwright end\ Yet "perhaps" is the discipline both perils refuse. Apocalypticism can't bear not to know the hour. The religion-complex can't admit that the order it guards is, in part, what the messianic comes to unmake. Paul risked the word at Philemon 15—we've mostly lost the nerve.
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Alt-text: @nick_routledge Aug 12, 2020 The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis: "Throughout history, it has been movements led by those most impacted by injustice and poverty, with faith communities and moral leaders as standard-bearers involved, that have fundamentally transformed society." @UniteThePoor I must admit to being a tad weary of framing the eschatological proviso as a futurity rather than as a present matter of maldistribution. The poor aren’t waiting for eschatology to arrive; they’re living in the violent gap between where it’s present and where it’s denied to them. 1/ All was good until his finale articulately dismissing the prophetic eschatology of deep incarnation as a form of otherworldly exile from the foreground we call history. @unitethepoor we categorize such takes as shopworn, smooth-tongued shilly-shallying for the status quo. end/ Cutting to the chase, the moral code built into dominative secular and religious epistemologies and their symbiotic structures of power, ordain and endorse a planet-sized house of endless worship of state violence against the world's poor. Simply stated, we're calling it.
Open original document@AimeTim The scandal of Reality is that it is morally structured, and everyone, believers or not, eventually encounters that grain as judgment. Optionality, as such, applies not to eternal features of consciousness, but to temporary conditions defining the age that still permits evasion.
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4/ #Quran: And among humankind are those who say they believe in God and the Last Day but they do not believe. @UniteThePoor 5/ #Quran They try to deceive God and those who believe, but they do not deceive anyone except themselves, although they do not know it. 6/ #Quran: And when they are told not to make trouble on earth, they say that they are only doing good. Is it not that they are in fact the troublemakers without even knowing it? @UniteThePoor 7/ #Quran And you are not the guide of the blind out of their error; you cannot make anyone hear but those who believe in Our signs and have submitted. And on the day the hour arrives the guilty will swear they only lingered a while; that is how deluded they were. @UniteThePoor 8/ #Quran And those to whom was given knowledge and faith will say, “In fact you lingered, according to the book of God, until the day of resurrection. And this is the day of resurrection, although you have not perceived.” 9/ #Quran If you could only see when abusers are stood before their Lord, throwing back allegations at one another. Those who had been despised of will say to the arrogant, “If not for you, we would have been believers!” @UniteThePoor 10/ #Quran The arrogant will say to the despised, “Did we hold you back from the guidance after it came to you? No, you were the guilty ones.” 11/ And the despised will say to the arrogant, “No, it was a plot of the night & the day: you commanded us to deny God, and set up idols as equals to God.” And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, “We reject what you were sent with.”@UniteThePoor 12/ #Quran Assembly of spirits and humanity! Did there not come to you messengers from among you relating My signs and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours? @UniteThePoor 13/ #Quran If only disbelievers knew of the time when they cannot ward off the fire from their faces or from their backs and they will not be helped! No, it will come upon them unawares, and confound them, so they cannot avert it, and no respite will they have. @UniteThePoor 14/ #Quran And on the day the hour arrives,on that day they will be divided: those who had faith and did good works will be gladdened in a garden… @UniteThePoor 15/ #Quran while those who disbelieved and repudiated Our signs and the final meeting will be brought to punishment. @UniteThePoor 16/ #Quran 2:136 “Say: We believe in God and that which was revealed unto us, and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ismail, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received and that which the Prophets received from their Lord...” end/ #Quran. “...We make no distinctions between any of them, and unto Him we surrender.”@UniteThePoor
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