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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12850 Post contents: Re; M Ryan Yes....the "truths" of your assertions never change, anyone who might question them is automatically a death-loving nihilist. I do believe Christ was a firm adherent to the benefits of labor...fishing, carpentry, preaching...etc. His message was subsumed by subsequent Christian Empires and turned into a master-servant relationship, uniquely suitable for exploitation by every crackpot imperial project since. While his brutal death and resurrection are the focus of veneration, it is in the story of his life and words and actions that I myself find the richest vein to plumb. Given his eviction of the money changers from the Temple, I imagine he would howl when confronted with the pridefully debauched state of many of those who claim to support his words and actions today. Something tells me that given an explanation of Austrian Schooled Libertarianism and the Perversities of the Power and Soul -hungry Religionists of today and yesterday, Christ would not be as automatically dismissive as you seem to assert. I do not so much repudiate religion as I do the righteous perversions and tyranny...and anti-intellectualism and anti-individualism of Statist Religion. Unfortunately, one needs a millennia of cheeks to turn in the face of the continuous assault of the righteous on the dignity of the individual. Statist religion has all too often been the Judas of the ages, kissing the masses while dispensing the rod freely. When and if the final parade of victory over the lapsed Republic occurs, I am confident the lead chariot will be occupied by a despot who has a venal "priest" at his right hand, listening pruriently to the power-plays of the kinds of henchmen who demand obedience and abjure the individual. Taxes are, of course to the glory of the State and special dispensations are on sale to those made worthy by a handful of ducats. Keep thinking about the fires of hell to make the tyranny we exert upon you today seem less unjust. Seeking to categorize me as some form of antagonist because I may remind you of long-dead Sillonists is a true waste of time and spirit . Nonetheless, thanks for the reference, it'll be an interesting thing to research and ponder, relativistically speaking of course. For the record, "dreaming" of "salvation" or creating an army of laborers for a perfect state whose "religion is unfettered Capitalism " would seem to be beside the point because perfection is anathema....a charade, something dangled by the powerful as in the free cheese always found in the mouse trap. It is always interesting to me when some religious authoritarians assume secular humanists wish to pound their own ideas into a codified religion meant to replace traditional religion. I personally do not possess such certitude as that and would defend the religious against such assaults. Hellfire and brimstone is the coda of the coward and seduction of the despot. RE "I Am Not Spartacus": Book of Sarcasm 1:1...nice one... And "Allen", I'm not sure the conversation is quite 200 years late but it is at least as late as the time that has elapsed since the last chunk of the Berlin wall hit the ground. China's supremacy is not a foregone conclusion, despite their current economic advances. But you are right, there is alot of fiddling going on, mine included. Sent at: 2009 01 07