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Questions Posed about My
New Book on Trump, MAGA, Antichrist 09/21/2024
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days ticking down to 11/5, learn the deeper stakes in this year's election. Get your copy of Trump & the MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election today! Choose your format in the book block below.
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Some questions that arise regarding my new book on Trump & Antichrist follow. |
Why is the first chapter about Sigmund Freud? Freud underwent an amazing encounter with the same fresco that I did on visiting the Orvieto Cathedral in 1897. In fact, he was so taken by it that he returned two more times to study it. An entire book, excellently researched and beautifully written, is devoted to the impact that fresco had on Freud. It is called Freud’s Trip to Orvieto. The author, Nicholas Fox Weber,
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include that chapter right up front in my book because it demonstrates that art goes much deeper than theology, insofar as Freud, a declared atheist, nevertheless found himself smitten by the archetype of the Antichrist along with the other two frescos in the same chapel, one on Hell and another on “The Resurrection of the Flesh.” |
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a rule, it is the evangelicals and fundamentalists who have opined on “the Antichrist” in recent times, but my book does the opposite: I take the Antichrist archetype and apply it to those whose politics and values are oriented to the common good which includes truth, justice and the building of community. If Freud was vulnerable to a religious archetype of significance, other leftward thinking persons can surely join the cause and a new consensus on the left can
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| I hear that you are redefining MAGA
in this book. Yes, I am. Instead of “Make America Great Again,” I think the movement as it operates can rightly be called, “Make America Grotesque Again.” Grotesque as in the days of |
Jim
Crow laws that were hell-bent on denying blacks their rights to vote. Grotesque as in the days of slavery. Grotesque as in the days of lynchings. Grotesque as in the days of genocide toward Native Americans, including rounding up children and separating them from their families to attend government or church schools. Grotesque as in wiping out the buffalo in the 19th century to destroy the Plains Indians so dependent on the buffalo. Numbers went from 30
million buffalo to 500. Grotesque! |
What do you mean when you say the opposite of evil is not the good but the Sacred? This was one of the findings I came to in writing my major study on Evil, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society. This means that
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a conversation on evil until we have a conversation on the Sacred. If we are out of touch with the Sacred, we are necessarily out of touch with how to deal with evil; we see only its effects, we don’t get to its essence and we don’t deal with it effectively therefore. |
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Trump & MAGA as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, pp. 1-8, 51-56, 9-22. See also: Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society. And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality And Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global
Renaissance
Banner image: “Luca Signorelli’s 1501 depiction of the face of antichrist, from the Orvieto Cathedral.” Photo cropped. Wikimedia Commons. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
What does it mean to you to hear that the opposite of Evil is not the good but the Sacred? What follows from that? How do we learn the Sacred? |
Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s
rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity. For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color
prints from Amazon HERE. To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black
& white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE. Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil
that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them. “A scholarly
masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew
is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way. “Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author,
The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story
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The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance
In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian
paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which the spirit of Christ resurrects in terms of the return to an earth-based mysticism, the expression of creativity, mystical sexuality, the respect due the young, the rebirth of effective forms of worship—all of these mirroring the ongoing blessings of Mother Earth and the recovery of Eros, the feminine aspect of the Divine. “The eighth
wonder of the world…convincing proof that our Western religious tradition does indeed have the depth of imagination to reinvent its faith.” — Brian Swimme, author of The Universe Story and Journey of the Universe. “This book is a classic. ” Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work and The Dream of the Earth. |
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In the Beginning There Was Joy: A Cosmic Celebration for Kids of All Ages
The first book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series tells the story of the big bang and how humans fit into the awesome, fantastical,
cosmic picture! With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. "Matthew Fox does it again, here for our young ones, who so need a positive, cosmic vision
to thrive, or even survive, in a sad time." - Father Richard Rohr, Author of The Universal Christ "Matthew Fox offers a resounding affirmation of what our souls have always suspected: we are made for joy." - Mirabai Starr, Author of God of Love and Wild Mercy
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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar
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MONTHLY: Join Matthew Fox, Mariko Middleton, and Skylar Wilson of the Order of the Sacred Earth in a free virtual meeting for connection and networking with other mystic warriors. Last Tuesday of every month, 4:00-5:00pm PT. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88665302478 Meeting ID: 886 6530 2478 Learn more at www.orderofthesacredearth.org |
Matthew Fox will make a guest appearance during the Creation Spirituality
Communities course, Creation Spirituality in a Time of Apocalypse. He will talk about his new book on the antichrist, which is an apocalyptic archetype. Join Theodore Richards, founder of the Chicago Wisdom Project and editor of the online Magazine/Podcast ReImagining as he takes us through 4 sessions exploring how Creation Spirituality can give birth to
new stories during times of upheaval. Dates: Sept 9, 16, 23, 30 from 7-9 PM ET. Cost: $150 per student. Register HERE. |
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ConvergenceCoLab hosts Matthew Fox, Margaret Wheatley, and Brian McLaren in an online conversation on “Post-Doom Spirituality," Wednesday, October 16, 6-8:30 PM ET. Register now with an EARLY BIRD rate of $30, HERE. |
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Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his two books, In the Beginning There was Joy and The Return of Father Sky, in an Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, Thursday, October 17, 4:00-5:30 pm
PT. Register HERE. |
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Creation Spirituality Conversations
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Opus Dei, American Cardinal Burke, and Steve Bannon, former Trump advisor and former Executive Chairman at Breitbart News. He explains how Cardinal Burke and other neofascists in the Catholic Church opposed the Second Vatican Council, which sought to update the Catholic Church. He then explains how both Leonard Leo (co-chairman of the Federalist Society board of directors, who drew up lists of potential conservative judges who were then appointed to the Supreme Court)
and Kevin Roberts from the Heritage Foundation, share a right-wing Catholic ideology.
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