Flipping over Passover
Sunday, 12 April 2009
You know what we don’t talk about enough? History as told by the loser.
Passover also is a celebration of the murder of something like 25,000 Egyptian children.
I hear tell that to this day if you paint your doors—or, you know, your extra territorial streets—with enough innocent blood, the Angel of Death calls it good.
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Re: Flipping over Passover
This happened to make me think of Rene Girard's few books. To relate why, this is the shortest useful quote, one I found just now from http://www.jamesalison.co.uk/texts/eng05.html
...Catholic theologian but what can you do? There's some selection bias in who hears of Franco-American anthropologists at any point, let alone says something much afterward.
So foundational that myths are all centered on miracles, violent divine transformations - with pity for the downtrodden being an entirely alien notion - in stead of any supposition about how they themselves had experienced such harmony and how that elementary transcendent resolution could have been experienced. And enough that we should accuse everything from friendships to cliques to concrete institutions to abstract ones, spiritual ideologies - any thought of the supernatural in the first place, but no less the natural - of being attempts to get to take our quest of one kind and find (invent, whether through intuition or induction) a supple way to _take it out on something_.
By neil on 14 April 2009 · 21:44
Re^2: Flipping over Passover
That is extremely interesting reading. Thank you for pointing me at it.
Update: Oddly enough I almost posted William Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat instead.
By A is A on 14 April 2009 · 22:45