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Evangelical Christianity today needs healing and liberation from possession by White supremacy, Christian nationalism, heteropatriarchy, and authoritarian totalitarianism.
It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.
It’s easy to read these healing stories supernaturally, but theses stories were originally intended to be read socially and economically.
This specific in augural exorcism story in Mark's gospel would have been read systematically and not individually.
His gospel was not calling his listeners to repent of rebellion against empire or to accept the empire, but rather for his listeners to rethink their complicity with the status quo.