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By Gianluigi Gugliermetto 7/09/2025 |
Hearing
about Elon Musk launching his own political party made me think at once that a division in the U.S, electorate oriented toward the right can only bring victory to progressive candidates everywhere in the country. The Gospel adage “If Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come” (Mark 3:26) came immediately to mind. |
Satan
brings chaos whereas God, the Creator, brings order out of chaos. Whatever we think about the “existence” of Satan and God, such a duality has structured the human experience in many cultures for a long time — with Zoroastrianism and its influence upon Judaism being a historically |
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well-known fact. This is not a duality that one can simply bypass, despite the importance of overcoming all dualisms. We must live through it. The intensity and the magnitude of the forces that are being employed on the world scene and their very precise targeting of the most vulnerable make one think of one
single wicked mind. This is probably, in fact, how the idea of the devil as a “prince” dominating the entire world came to exist. The Gospels talk a lot about the devil. But they do so in a very practical manner, taking for granted that wicked forces are at play in the world, that Jesus is all about defeating them, and
noticing that the opponents of Jesus were accusing him of being in cahoots with those forces themselves. |
“Satan Fell like Lightning.” “The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” Detail from a lacquer screen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Posted by Fr Lawrence Lew, OP on Flickr | One Gospel story depicts Jesus sensing that the
power of Satan is being destroyed when his followers are going around healing people and telling them that the kingdom of God is near, i.e. that the power of the evil one is soon coming to an end. “I saw Satan falling from the sky.” (Luke 10:18). |
We can legitimately ask if the experience of Jesus and his band was limited to their time and place. Historically, people do experience peace, health, and mutual understanding in certain time/space pockets. The ecstatic experience of early Christians might have truly changed the lives of a generation, or more, but clearly has not changed the ways of the world. Contrariwise, some have speculated that two thousand years are a short time in the history of humankind — we are approximately 300,000 years old as a species — and we are therefore just at the beginning of the experiment of liberation that Jesus was preaching and enacting. Many of us are convinced that only by an alliance among different religious traditions, each bringing a unique perspective on the
human condition, might we hope to get out of the horrible mess in which we have fallen. |
In any case, using the Gospels to “demonstrate” the existence of the devil — as some evangelicals do — means missing entirely the
point. It might be useful instead to meditate upon what the Gospels actually say: that evil is powerful and keeps many in chains; that once one begins working to free people from such chains one is immediately accused of
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evil itself; and that evil — being chaos and dissension in and of itself — tends to crack internally, and once it does, its dominion comes quickly to an end. |
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Visionary theologian and best-selling
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Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South
American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
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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
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