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...divinity can be dangerous, however. The great Steinitz, who once claimed to have played against God and won (he neglected to leave a record of the game), went quite mad. The last great practitioner of truth, Bobby Fischer, after winning the world championship in 1972, disappeared into some apocalyptic sect in California and had the fillings in his teeth removed to stop the KGB transmissions...
...with many religions, my sect of baseball worship has a strict philosophy: there are some basic rules, there's good, and there's evil...
...centuries earlier, it would soon sail home in ignorance and frustration. Lebanon and neighboring Syria, Israel, Jordan and Iraq, he argues, are "tribes with flags" rather than nations. Try as big powers might to control them with armies, navies and imported ideologies, the ties of "family, village, tribe and sect" have been much tougher...
...oral tradition, the Talmud, which itself mediates, or "corrects," biblical literalism. But then the question becomes, Who says what the tradition is? The answer is, Anyone who can make his interpretations stick. Too often authority is gained through raw political power, or compelled by blind allegiance to a religious sect. But sometimes, as in Hartman's case, interpretive validity is achieved through the simple force of intellect...
What keeps the conservative movement's struggle with success from turning into a full-blown crisis is the absence of effective competition. The Democrats as a party and the liberals as a secular sect are far more bereft of direction. It is impossible to imagine a liberal gathering where one champion would warrant two or three different lapel buttons, let alone the eleven bearing the likeness of Ollie North...