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@lukeburgis Jürgen Moltmann, among others, understands the scandalous implication: "I believe that some people will have doubts here because in the future the liberation is not going to be ours; it will be other people who want to liberate themselves—have to liberate themselves—from *us*.

@Girardism "We don't know that we're persecutors. That's the main thing that Christianity tells you." - Girard in a 1994 talk. Painting of The Denial of Peter by Danish artist Carl Bloch
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@Girardism "We don't know that we're persecutors. That's the main thing that Christianity tells you." - Girard in a 1994 talk. Painting of The Denial of Peter by Danish artist Carl Bloch

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Sept 2026

Kishore Mahbubani, former President of the UN Security Council: the West imagines itself the world’s most virtuous civilization, barely noticing that the 88% of humanity outside it sees instead a record of violence, double standards and a geopolitical order deaf to everyone else. x.com/nikhil_palsingh/status/2099638766528836001

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: The Nordic Christ is Western exceptionalism made icon: the principalities that murdered Christ reappear in his likeness, clothing a civilizational consciousness still possessed by those powers in a counterfeit Christic self-image of messianic innocence and moral authority.Quoted byThe Nordic Christ is Western exceptionalism made icon: the principalities that murdered Christ reappear in his likeness, clothing a civilizational consciousness still possessed by those powers in a counterfeit Christic self-image of messianic innocence and moral authority.