@Plough Jesus qualifies Cassidy. Christians are never called to cease loving or praying for anyone. But neither are we called to pursue reconciliation indefinitely when peace is persistently refused. Ultimately, In Christ, division—wheat and tares—is not peace’s opposite but its pathway.
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Thread here: 1/3 Thank you for that. A further consideration. A diplomatic settlement might end the conflict, but it would leave intact the single constitutive derangement shared by both parties—the political-theological totality in which sovereign power finds its natural consummation in war. 2/ An American unveiling of Empire; an Iranian unveiling of the Islamic Republic’s capture of Shia messianism. Each, alone, can be domesticated as national self-critique. Together they exceed both national frames, becoming mutually amplifying disclosures of a planetary reckoning. Quote tweet: 1/5 Something deeper is underway. Not diplomatic or military resolution, or managed de-escalation, but a form of revelation. The Palestine-Iran crisis has reached a threshold where the veil over the death-bound logic underwriting an entire global order is beginning to tear.
@firstthingsmag end\ This coincidence is a meeting place: not because either structure concedes ground, but because both lose the ground their antagonism requires. Messianic accord begins where revelation discredits and transcends the dominative epistemic frame that constitutes them as enemies.
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Copy of tweet here: end/ Real apocalypse doesn't stop at naming one enemy. It brings religion, market, empire and interpreter under the same judgment. What the poor are owed isn't another reading of their situation, but the dispossession underwriting the whole arrangement defeated and remade.