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evil, nazis
Evil and Nazis
09.23.10 | Permalink | 6 CommentsSeptember’s UU Blog Salon topic is the nature of evil. In full awareness that I’m in danger of violating Godwin’s Law, here’s my response: After December 1941 (if not before) it was a good thing to kill Nazis. If it was December 1941 again, it would be good to kill Nazis again. Picketing and petitions would […]
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addkison, evil, knoxville
Addkison meant it
08.25.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI was grateful to see Meg Barnhouse’s article in UUWorld this morning. I’ve been sitting on an angry blog post for several days now, and she has said many things about the Knoxville shotting that I wanted to say, but far more gracefully. Addkison meant to kill UUs. He knows who we are and what […]
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empire, evil, gnosticism, gnostics, theodicy
The empire never ended
I finished up Philip K. Dick’s freaky book VALIS last night. It’s gnostic, and if there’s anything consistently true about Gnostic writing, it’s that it’s freaky. “Phildickian” gnosticism does not disappoint on that account. There’s the VALIS—the Vast Active Living Intelligence System—which controls the world and even creates it. There’s the Black Iron Prison, which […]
