In recent years, theological concepts have been used to justify the effects of political killings.
Nationalist aspirations accompany politico-religious movements that are more generally part of the dynamic of struggles for identity claims. Coming from often racist and homophobic backgrounds, these “messianists” initiate politics and update it as a prophetic figure and its heroization. Thus, we have seen the presence of “divine” emissaries or characters who suddenly proclaimed their divine affiliation. These characters have exerted and / or exert a strong fascination among citizens who devote them a dithyrambic or tyrannical praise. This introduces a break that is intended to be radical and exemplary in democracy. By ritualization mechanism, the latter invites himself to no longer be considered “distant”. Suddenly, there emerges in him the ambivalence between a deep desire for nationalism on the one hand and a return to the obsession with his origins on the other. Their fictionalization of the real history of men and the belief in the advent of a different world is made up of justice, freedom and happiness which nurture the principle of hope.
This “messianization” of politics is indeed part of the domination exercised in messianist movements over their desires for political murders against a background of identity claims.
The messianization of political crime
