RT @nick_routledge: @Plough Moyn’s argument leaves the deeper problem untouched: the power of evil that continually regenerates war. Revelation does not consist in showing war to be irrational, cruel, or self-defeating, but is the messianic event that unmasks evil and breaks its power.
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3/ The U.S. has initiated 201 of the world's 248 armed conflicts since the end of WWII. 90% of war deaths are civilians. #AmericanJournalofPublicHealth June 2014. The control complex, an endless war crime, with no interest in its abolition. "There is nothing so vile as the arrogance of the military mind." - Abraham Joshua Heschel. 5/ Yemeni journalists found a fragment of the bomb #SaudiArabia dropped on a school bus full of children in #Yemen. An MK-82 guided bomb, used in previous attacks on Yemeni civilians. Made by #LockheedMartin. Art, mine. Smartphone #picsart, 2014. Image of children, hands raised, below text reading ‘Hands up for war!’, and above Lockheed Martin’s corporate logo
Open original document@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.