Re: Why I Went Cold Turkey on Political Theology

Richard Carl Silk <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Steve Hayes" wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:57:09 -0500, "Richard Carl Silk" wrote:
> 
>>> Hey Steve:  If theology has left you feeling cold, here's a *short* something 
>>> that *may* warm you back up again:
>> 
>> I never said theology had left me cold.
> 
> I never said you did.  I wrote "If...."
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> And in this case what he suddenly abandoned was a certain kind of right-wing 
>> political theology.
> 
> FYI, "right-wing" ideology is a bit like a donut:  The right writes law for 
> *all,* while the left *excludes* the right.
> 
> In a donut, the donut *includes* the hole; the hole *excludes* the donut.

I have a few problems with this 

Single issue voters

> 
> That's the essence of everything, incidentally:
> Unity *includes* duality; duality *excludes* Unity.
> 
> This may be simply understood as:
> Lovers love lovers *and* haters;
> haters *hate* lovers *and* haters.
> 
>>> https://tinyurl.com/itta-TCoU  (If you're fearful of links, let me know, and
>>> I'll copy / paste the short story into a post here for you, but it may be 
>>> awhile
>>> before I circle back around to this group.)
>> 
>> I'm not fearful of links, but I don't normally follow links that give
>> no indication of their subject."
> 
> It's a *brief* short story (written for parents to read to their children, but 
> mainly aimed at the parents themselves) that helps one to "understand" what 
> everything is all about, as it were.  Like I said, it's *short* (maybe 2 to 5 
> minutes, depending upon how fast one reads, but I suggest reading it carefully.)
> 
>> So does your link lead to anything that has to do with theonomic 
>> reconstructionism or a critique of the same?
> 
> To find the satanic, follow the word salad.  "Love thine enemies" contains no 
> word salad.
> 
>> Or is Usenet now so dead that an ontopic response is the last thing one would 
>> expect?"
> 
> It helps for one to learn to expect the unexpected.  FYI, it appears your entire 
> response went "off topic" at the misreading of the word "If...."
> 
>> All the response this post has got has been random and irrelevant quotes 
>> (apparently from a bot) and an unsupported link.
> 
> I've seen no bot response.  The link "supports itself" as it's still there. 
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