Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, a close associate of Pope Francis, pointedly reads the Easter story as a "radical refutation" of the logic of blood and violence that drives so much of history:
"Easter is a radical refutation of the logic that governs history when it is driven by fear: the logic of blood, of sacrificing the other, of violence justified as necessary."
#Easter #violence #death #destruction #war #resurrection
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/the-easter-of-the-king-of-peace/112632
"The Easter story begins within this logic. The condemned man is eliminated 'for the greater good.' Conflict finds its oldest solution: removing the problem. The torment of the cross is the seal of this mechanism.
And yet Easter fractures it from within. The Risen One does not return violence. He does not demand revenge."
"He does not reopen the case. He returns with a simple word: peace.
Here lies the decisive point. The Resurrection is not the triumph of a greater force, but the end of the spiral of force."
"God has not come to kill and destroy, in order that only a few select white American Christians might rule in absolute power.
But God has come so that all may have life, and have it abundantly."
~ Angela Denker
#Easter #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #violence #death #destruction
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https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/sunday-stretch-easter-2026
"There’s a reason why fascists have always silenced and censored the storytellers, historians, and cultural workers first. They need to replace our collective memory with a single, mythical story written and perpetuated by the regime."
~ Rebecca Solnit quoted by Wajahat Ali
#fascists #storytellers #culture #historians #art #music #literature #imagination
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/hope-and-imagination-as-the-antidotes
Author and activist Rebecca Solnit makes the case for memory, hope, imagination and action as the necessary ingredients to defeat fascists and cynics who believe positive change is an impossibility.
"It’s a story of Übermenschen and heroes who once were great until the 'invasion' of the undesirables, who are often people of color, immigrants, uppity women, and LGBTQ+ folks."
#fascists #storytellers #culture #historians #art #music #literature #imagination #race #gender #LGBTQ
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"Dear Christians,
Jesus didn’t warn us about LGBTQI+ people or atheists. He warned us about religious people who love power more than the truth.
I hope this rings a bell."
~ Ortinel
#Trump #Hegseth #Easter #WhiteChristianNaitonalism #power #death #destruction #violence
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"It is little wonder that the war against empathy has escalated at the same time as the war against books. One of the many ways we learn empathy is through reading. People who hate books are not readers, or, more likely, they are poor readers."
~ Jacqueline Allen Trimble
#fascists #storytellers #culture #historians #art #music #literature #imagination #empathy #books
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https://www.salvationsouth.com/whole-armor-poetry-jacqueline-allen-trimble/
"Authoritarian power always relies on the threat of suffering and death. Comply or suffer. Submit or be silenced. Death is its preferred tool of enforcement and always its final argument. It was true for Rome and it is true for modern nation states today. But resurrection takes that argument away. It renders that tool useless.
If death is no longer final then fear is no longer ultimate."
~ Benjamin Cremer
#Easter #violence #death #destruction #war #resurrection
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https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/resurrection-as-resistance
Hehe... 'uppity women'....
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