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...three gods of their bizarre theology represent "three basic patterns of human reality." One of them is Jehovah, a "wrathful God of vengeance and retribution," who demands "discipline, courage and ruthlessness" from his followers. The second is Lucifer, wrongly confused with Satan, they say. He is the "Light-Bearer" who urges humans to "enjoy life to the full, to value success, to be gentle and kind and loving." The third is Satan, "the receiver of corrupted bodies and transcendent souls," who impels humans both toward a subhuman life of depravity and a superhuman life of asceticism. The Processeans see Christ...
...collapse in the face of experience. By contrast, great judging requires intense effort, a consuming passion for the public interest, a scorn for personal whims. No fealty to that effort was ever more impressive or poignant than that shown by Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting from a court ruling that Jehovah's Witnesses could not be forced to salute the flag in public schools. "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history," wrote Frankfurter, "is not likely to be insensible to the freedom guaranteed by our Constitution. But as a member of this court...
...does a martyr escape from family, from original sin, even from Australia? Like Joyce & Co., Keneally is better at seeing the trap than seeing a way out. "We're cemented, you, me, them," Barbara cries. In the end, Keneally looses a Jehovah-like flood on the outback and the Glovers, washing himself clean of his creation. But in the meantime, writing like an angel, he has forcefully raised an ancient question: What is the demon in man that so often makes him a monster to those condemned to love him-including himself...
This seems to be both the Age of Touchiness and the Age of the Beleaguered Minority. Blacks. Jews. Jehovah's Witnesses. Women. The Very Young. The Very Old. Homosexuals. Suburbanites. People from Philadelphia. Who does not qualify? Never have Americans been so willfully aware of belonging to one minority or another, never have they been so defensive and so belligerent about it. Not a day passes but new and ever touchier minorities surface...
...outside it." She uses the analogy of stock-market speculators who, when the market crashed in the '30s, were so defeated that some of them committed suicide. " Everybody does that. We're trying to learn how to avoid it, to identify your self with something bigger... God. Not just Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, or Christ, but with all these things. We're trying to learn to identify with God. God never goes...