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[When a religioninfrasovereign grasps sovereign power, the society becomes closed, parnoid and stifling. The reigning symbolic order (thinkpro-object) occupies the hollow of thinkdivine.
Sovereigninfrareligion converts by the sword. To question is to feel the sharp point of accusation. You are against the “object that brings us all into organization under sovereign power”. Your conscience is against the “object”.]
In Schoonenberg’s words: “Israel’s ‘No’ to the God of grace takes shape the very first time in the positive effort to “be like unto God” (Gen 3:5); to dispose autonomously, in magic and idolatry, of God’s free gifts, of what properly belongs to God, of God himself.”