On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> ...subversive radicalism is what Zizek argues is the kernel of
> Christianity.
>
> A history teacher of mine once described John the Baptist in the
> desert as "wild and wooly." He made him sound like Ginzburg's
> "starving, hysterical, naked" in Howl. Some might say John was
> detached from reality.
What in the name of Jesus did John the Baptizer have to do with the farrago baptized "Christianity" by Saul/Paul and his acolytes?
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos