The accelerating national and global success of the ("Sorathic") Agents of Chaos is being misinterpreted as progress for the sociopolitical agenda of the (church-rooted) Religious Right -- much as I predicted would happen some six years ago during the chaotic " summer of antiracism" that followed after the global totalitarian coup of the birdemic
They misinterpret the success of the AoC at weakening social institutions (which are all Left converged) as a resurgence of the Right, and their church.
On the face of it, this is bizzare! Especially in a world of ever more and escalating wars ( and the inevitable consequences)! And continuing mass migration (ATIC).
But there is an internal coherence if:
1. People interpret destruction of their enemies as progress of themselves.
2. People assume their own church is Fundamentally immune to destruction.
This means that despite the subversion/ corruption/ apostasy/ and feeble faith of their Actual church - such people regard it as Inevitable that their church Will benefit from the ongoing situation of collapsing functionality.
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If you don't see it, you don't (and probably never will) see it.
That's the only way I have been able to make sense of all the hip-hip hooraying and grandstanding I encounter in Christian discourse concerning this matter.
Concerning your two points about internal coherence (both of which are lucid and on-point):
1. Is celebrating the destruction of your enemies and regarding such destruction as progress for your "side" really a Christian attitude/motivation at its core?
2. Nothing, and I mean nothing, is immune to destruction in this world. That entails that the fundamentally indestructible part of any fundamentally indestructible church must be other-worldly in essence. If that is the case, then why the morid obsession with the church "winning" in this world in the form of this-worldly affairs like politics, power plays, Overton windows, societal milieu, etc.?
@ Frank. Good points. I suppose that we are up against human nature, as can be seen even in the New Testament. In stark contrast with Judaism; Jesus's message and achievement was rooted in the next world, and the spiritual.
Meanwhile we are here and now. The temptation to try and combine both in one religion is almost irresistible, but in an institutional setting this means that the material and this world will prevail over time (else the institution will not survive and thrive).
In earlier times, individual Men were spontaneously connected with the spirit, so this did not matter so much. But now, with alienation as the norm and hard to escape - institution-focused religion is just another social organization.
Those loyal to a church are functionally just generic "organization-men".
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