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i think that lindeseylatch made an important point earlier--that this whole thread is shaped by a projection originating with evangelicals, which follows from thieir curious belief that they are the Saved and others are minions of Satan--so there is a symmetry posited from the start, in that both are understood as unified formations that share similar dispositions (even as they are mirror images of each other)--across this you get an element of projection--evangelicals imagingin themselves and their modes of self-organization as the basis for understanding all social phenomena--as a way of putting all social phenomena on the same basis as themselves--so as to give them something they can oppose on their own terms.
so the category "atheists" and the notion of "fanaticism" has to do with a reshaping of the world in the image of evangelical protestants for the most part (in the particular political context we have the ambiguous fortune of moving through in real time--the structure exists across any christian denomination, but seems most operational for the evanglicals)--if you do not find this position to be of interest, then the projections that follow from it are not compelling. so it is with the argument that opened the thread.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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