This strikes me as too clever. What may be missing from Greek and Roman "belief" in their gods is perhaps the Christian focus on belief as the framework of a self-centered drama in which the believer finds and loses belief continually, with Heaven and Hell constantly in the balance. The classical "belief" in the gods may have involved assent to propositions about them with truth value, but have lacked the highly focused terrorism of Christian professed (and often feigned) belief.
"Strategy for identitarian self-assertion"--what can this possibly mean? What is an "identitarian" anyway? The reality, I suspect, is that a lot of these religious fakers are lying just like Trump--and like most religious fanatics from time immemorial. They do this in part because they get a kick out of ramming their lies down other people's throats, knowing that they are lies. Why sugar-coat this? Still worse, why "Theory" coat it. Participants in a special mode of consciousness to which "facts" are irrelevant because (long pause) Theory ? Not so much, unless they're up for tenure in a Department of English somewhere. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5705): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5705 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79664222/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
