= = = The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. - William Hazlitt = = =
Actually, I read what you wrote, I am calling it a form of bigotry. You can use the same analytical model to look at almost every longstanding institution in Western culture. You use it primarily to trash Christianity. Thus your bigotry is in your choice of focus.
This is separate from my earlier criticism of sado-masochistic psychological analysis used to explain everything. We all have sado-masochistic tendencies. So do many institutions. I find this model not helpful and overly smug. You like it. We can disagree on that.
Incidently, I didn't know the Berrigan brothers (Daniel & Philip) ever wrote a book together; what was the title of the book you read?
-Chip Berlet
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema" <crdbronx at erols.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:26 AM Subject: Re: Christian love
> You didn't read what I wrote. I have, of course read the
Berrigans' book
> and am familiar with them. Note that I said:
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> > > There are corresponding feminine masochist
> > manifestations. We on the left tend
> > > to like them a lot more, because they often lead to
> > political action we
> > > sympathize with, ahd even see as heroic.
> > >
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> Sadism implies the presence of masochism.
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> Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
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