Papers of a Perverse Patriot (1)
Perverse Patriotism is the unique and exclusive loyalty (what we call “faith”) to apocalyptic Jesus that serves him in a Subversive Counter-Revolutionary Movement (SCRM, a.k.a. in polite society as “church”) Perverse Patriots Serve Apocalyptic Jesus Not a wisdom Jesus or a prophetic Jesus. Both seek to “make a difference” in the world as we know it. The former by helping us “get along” in it; the latter by making it a bit “better.” Either Jesus allows this world as it is to set the parameters for its reality. Either Jesus trades on the conventional difference believed to exist between patriotism (good) and nationalism (bad). I believe the Jesus I argue for undercuts the coherence of this distinction and places both in question. Apocalyptic Jesus is the Jesus who inaugurates a new world defeating the powers that sustained the old world rendering it decaying and passing away. That new world is the reality in which Apoca...