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.
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1/2 "The world’s majority is steadily moving off the marked-out paths of the Atlanticist map, ceasing to look for guidance from people who are themselves lost. In this new configuration, the terminus of history isn’t any single Western capital; the road has returned to the sea." Quote tweet: "The catastrophic failure of the American-Israeli war on Iran seems certain to inaugurate another revolution in global consciousness." The true historical analogy for this war isn't Suez 1956 but Tsushima 1905. Must read. An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians From change.org The Planetary Christ laying the smack down on the cursed exceptionalism of the Nordic Christ, in a statement issuing from the Holy Land, the Gospel's epicenter, the very birthplace of Christianity? It had to happen. If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar –
Open original document@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*.
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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