Feb 19, 2012

Trinities

So Jesus and his self-brother, the Spirit, don't give Catholics glossolalia and the shivvy-shakes. Neither do they do the crackers into flesh and cooking sherry into blood magic for Assembly of God pentecostals. God is not an ecumenicist.

Neither is the State. Or the Market.

All three are royal fictions. And each, despite the rhetoric of universalism and transcendence offered by their devotees, is employed to sunder.

2 comments:

  1. yes indeed
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSvsFgvWr0

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  2. but we need our fictions. they are comfortable, comforting.

    "sunder" = well-chosen word.

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