Well it's funny you should ask that
question as moments prior I was flicking through "Moorish Style" by
Miles Danby.
To be sure, it's simply magnifico! Art
and architecture of beauty to thrill and inspire!
What did the so-called Christian West
dominated by the papacy have to offer?
Bloody Crusades, the Inquisition and
infernal bleeding Madonna's and morbid effigy's of perennially dying deity,
Cathedral ceilings dominated by guilt, death and destruction? They stole
knowledge, wisdom and craft from Orientalism and like wild boars rampaged
through its vineyard of treasures.
In present day US, given the
diverse squabbles amongst alleged Evangelicals and Christian Zionists, it
would be difficult to envisage a single entity that could
be construed as your hoped for Citadel of Light. Robert Schuller's dream is his holy house of glass
- not sure what he's growing in there?
Perhaps, the Muslims might have a
better shot at it, although the modern variety is as barren intellectually and
spiritually as their lets-make-America-a-Xtian-theocracy
counterparts.
None-the-less, the American
pioneers had a much clearer vision than their wannabe spiritual
progeny who allege to be heirs of the American kingdom. Each and every cultus
has it's own particular "We are Children of Abraham
(Washington)" mantra.
But then, the pioneers were a mixed bag of
Deists, Protestant Christians, and Pagans predominantly looking to escape the
persecution of the papal dominated Old World. In part they aspired to
not repeat the persecutory mistakes of history in their vision of New Atlantis.
They were determined that never again would the State be incarnated with a
Messianic nature.
Much kudos therefore must go to the
enlightened pagans and Masons who helped shape the New World. As the world has become less and less isolated, the New
Atlantean's have progressively been overrun by the common rabble whom they must
assuage with soft-pillows for their conscience and body.
Methinks the only way left now is
up!
Perhaps a Martian Atlantis will be
the go for future Atlantean's?
But I am probably way behind
the times and I'm sure some Alternative-warped Conspiramaniac will inform us
that we've already erected the Martian Mecca. Love to know what
Martian beer tastes like!
Well, with so many competitive
factions, I thank god daily that I am a post-millennial atheist.
Dave.
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> Suppose 1,000,000 American Muslims and 1,000,000 American Christian
> Evangelicals were each given a substantial grant to design a "Shining City
> on a Hill" as Steve Forbes called America in his presidential campaign.
> The grant might come from Ted Turner or the Whitehouse "faith-based public
> works" program or wherever. Who do you think would win?
>
> POC
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, David Sutherland wrote:
>
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,840568,00.html
> >
> >
> > Powell Attacks Christian Right
> > Oliver Burkeman in New York
> > The Guardian UK
> >
> > Friday, 15 November, 2002
> >
> > Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, condemned America's Christian right
> > yesterday for propagating hatred against Muslims, in what appeared to be a
> > coordinated White House campaign to confront anti-Islamic rhetoric from a
> > constituency that includes some of the Bush administration's staunchest
> > supporters.
> >
> > Days after the televangelist Pat Robertson said on his Christian
> > Broadcasting Network that "what the Muslims want to do to the Jews is worse"
> > than the Holocaust, Mr Powell told a gathering in Washington: "This kind of
> > hatred must be rejected."
> >
> > The escalation in anti-Muslim comments from conservative Christians includes
> > a recent claim by Jerry Falwell, the country's leading rightwing Baptist,
> > that the prophet Mohammed was "a terrorist".
> >
> > Veteran evangelist Jimmy Swaggart followed that this week by calling
> > Mohammed a "sex deviant" and a pervert and demanding that Muslim students in
> > the US be expelled. "We ought to tell every other Muslim living in this
> > nation that if you say one word, you're gone," he said.
> >
> > As the likelihood grows of a war in Iraq there are strategic benefits for
> > the White House in convincing Muslims that it would not be a war against
> > their religion.
> >
> > The administration's increased willingness to confront the Christian right
> > reflects the Republicans' sweeping victories in last week's mid-term
> > elections, reducing Mr Bush's reliance on the extreme fringes of his
> > supporter base.
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