Slumming

Jesus' dying on the cross was not only God at his most useless, it was worse; it was nothing but an act of divine slumming.
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Belligerate

The candidate is such a disappointment -- and this from someone who never liked him all that much anyways. But to watch him try to out belligerate his opponent is really sickening.

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Life Sentence

We all lead the life to which we are condemned and we each must pay the price of our sentence.
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Life under Dictators

An unpleasant sensation of impotence and helpless solitude ... forever denied the right to salvation, rebelliousness, or pride.

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Party

Neither party is capable of coming up with a political plan much less an ideology that is something more than a grab-bag of assorted wants. A child could do as much.
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Objectivity

Objectivity is the ultimate fetish of the commodity.
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Achievement

Given a point and a line, the human mind can construct 16 books of geometry. It is hardly surprising that given a Virgin Birth and a Crucifixion, the human mind can produce 16,000 volumes of theology.

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Truth

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall drive you mad.

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God must

God has to exist. How else to account for evil in the world.

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Foundations

Spiritual love (caritas) requires a material foundation; the sub-stance of Christ's wherewithall to give.
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Friendship

The obligations of friendship are not ob-ligations. That's what Jesus meant when he said his burden was light.
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Types of Ignorance

In Mexico I learned there was no more use trying to explain certain things to Indians than to explain Kant to a cat. One’s efforts would be met with a kind of mental deafness or, if heard, with occasional hostility or sometimes with that existential irony that knocks you on your butt.

On returning to the US, I thought I would be returning to burgertum... to people who kept religion within reasonable bounds and appreciated the virtues of science. Alas, it was not that way unfortunately not that way. I have come to realize that Murkans -- the dumbest of our lot -- are like Indians, only worse because they utterly lack the Indian's sense of irony in place of which they have only jingoism and hate. .