Of Spirit and Fire

Daniel,

When I described myself as "sans Spirit," I was not just speaking of those
old Judeo-Christian god stories. I meant without any of it. Of any age.
Without sweat-lodges or chakras or maharishis or covens and certainly without
Hegelian Geist. Now, there is no other single philosopher in the history of Western
thought more fully and thoroughly informed by Hegelian Spirit than Marx. And
via his reading, Lenin and Trotsky are as well. So they have nothing to do
with what I have been discussing. They are believers, all the way, with upper
case values at all times. You are ill-informed.

Also, I wrote nothing at all about Rummy (aka Donald Rumsfeld). I wrote
about John Ashcroft. Sometimes, I think you just scan rather than read.

And he's not just a Bible thumping hypocrite and zealot, he's a bigot as
well, and is using "defense against terrorism" as a sleazy cover for his twisted
evangelism. So now we have the true believers protecting us from other true
believers. It's all really charming.

Though no more charming than that "standing Church" you mentioned providing
cover to men who take sexual advantage of young boys and then offering hush
money to the families of the victims -- at least until the publicity made it no
longer possible for it to do so. Meanwhile, it sends out a letter threatening
any member of its community if they vote or come out in favor of two people
who love each other getting married if they happen to be of the same gender.
It's appalling, actually. There's room for everyone, huh?

Finally, a question: what do Butler, PA and Almagorda, NM have in common?

All the best,

--John

PS: Answer -- they both have Christian churches that organized bonfires to
burn the new Harry Potter book. In each cases, the book-burnings were
well-attended by local parishioners. There are a number of other American cities on
the list as well.

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