[lbo-talk] Last Supper, in a leather harness

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Sep 26 08:28:43 PDT 2007



>
>-WD wrote:
>
>[although I find him obnoxious on many levels, I still have a lot of
>admiration for Stanley Fish. The following isn't totally on point,
>but I think it partially captures what I think I'm getting at:]
>
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/opinion/12fish.html
>February 12, 2006
>A Cartoon in 3 Dimensions; Our Faith in Letting It All Hang Out
>By STANLEY FISH

To put Prof. Fish in perspective:


>Charges in Religious Lawsuit Against Army Detailed
>
Major Freddy J. Welborn was identified in a federal lawsuit filed last week by Army Spc. Jeremy Hall, 22, and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation..
>..when Hall received permission by an Army chaplain to organize a
>meeting of other soldiers whoshared his atheist beliefs, his
>supervisor, Army Major Welborn, broke up thegathering and threatened
>to retaliate against the soldier by charging him with violating the
>Uniform Code of Military Justice...Last month, the Pentagon's
>inspector general (IG) excoriated high-ranking military officials
>Air Force Maj. Gen. Jack Catton, Army Brig. Gen. Bob Caslen, Brig.
>Gen. Vincent Brooks, Maj. Gen. Peter Sutton, and a colonel and
>lieutenant colonel whose names were redacted... for engaging in
>evangelism while on duty and in uniform...

But as Stanley Fish (whose literary ambition seems to be to "shine and stink like a dead mackeral in the moonlight) would surely point out, these Officers and Gentlemen were merely "taking their religion seriously" and those liberal creeps should leave them the hell alone.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos

(By the way, the "Leather" display of the Last Supper was a lot closer to the historical reality than the version worshipped by the Christians who call it "blasphemous")



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