How to Resist the False Religion of Empire

“There are imperial liturgies today. An example is something like the Nuremberg rallies in Nazi Germany on a massive scale. Lynchings of African-Americans functioned very much like a liturgy of empire and white supremacy. More recently, the White Supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, and the spectacle around the last Presidential election and the subsequent rallies, are all examples of this kind of building up into a frenzy against ‘wicked’ others that we see in liturgies of empire […]

Liturgies of empire are meant to distract us from paying attention to the suffering of our neighbor and to create scapegoats. But the liturgy of the lamb that was slain centers the victims of empire. It also connects us to the suffering of those around us and leads us to be present in the here and now.”

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