Gordon Fitch wrote:
> Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema:
> > Don't hold your breath. What you cite is the feminine masochist side of
> > Christianity. One of the more elementary clinical insights is that when you
> > see M, all you have to do is dig a little deeper and S is there somewhere,
> > maybe a bit hidden, maybe not so much. It's helpful to recognize Christian
> > faith as an ideologized manifestation of sado-masochistic character
> > structure, organized along lines of gender. It'll be a while before these
> > guys' sadistic impulses give out. The sermon on the mount is one of the more
> > meretricious biblical texts.
>
> I've never figured out what a lot of it means, so if you know
> it's meretricious you're way ahead of me. For instance, I've
> meditated on Matt 5:3 off and on for about forty years; looked
> up _ptokhoi_ and the uses of the dative case; asked people
> who should have known -- but it's still obscure. Of course,
> as the guy said elsewhere, "You don't belong to the kingdom
> of heaven, so you can't see the kingdom of heaven" -- maybe
> that's what cuts me out.