For two thousand years, #CivilianTheology has scrubbed the military context out of the #Christmas story. We've turned the Incarnation into something safe, something domesticated.

But #Advent tells a different story — if you're willing to read it without civilian bias.
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This sentiment makes clear how #CivilianTheology buttresses #EntitlementReligion, a system of meaning in which extrication from the collective dumpster fire can be accomplished through sheer disinterest, as tho resistance = removal.

The Poors continue to burn, but what’s in it for me and mine?