Elites of a crumbling empire entranced by a cult fixated on a criminal brutalized to death, preaching a gospel obsessed with the salvation of the oppressed, whose fervent adepts desecrate the symbols of civic authority.
Rome or the US?
My latest:
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Rome or the US?
My latest:
thepullrequest.com/p/the-christ-w…
The Christian message is and was an absolute revolution in world affairs. It is utterly bizarre and unlike anything that came before, or that exists now outside the West.
Because we've lived inside it for 2,000 years, and the West is currently preponderant, we take it as given.
Because we've lived inside it for 2,000 years, and the West is currently preponderant, we take it as given.
What's striking is the horseshoe this creates between Christian conservatives and the secularized adepts of the same message.
For all their supposed differences, they both absolutely agree on the correct moral narrative for our times; they just disagree on the casting.
For all their supposed differences, they both absolutely agree on the correct moral narrative for our times; they just disagree on the casting.
One of @holland_tom's more mind-bending assertions (in the interview that led to this piece) is that the self-questioning, victim-obsessed secular West we see is in fact the inevitable end of Christ's message. If so, it seems we're speeding to its millenarian conclusion.
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