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lebell:
actually, there is nothing paranoid about what i wrote.
the inability of folk who defend the evangelilcal christian right to acknowledge that they are not just a community of individual believers but rather also part of a mass political movement is evident to anyone who looks at the situation we have the misfortune to be living through. erasing this distinction is apparently a nontrivial element in their mobilization.
i see it as a kind of collective intellectual handicap that these folk submit to willingly, because, apparently, not only would jesus be a bigot were he alive today, but he would also be unable to make this distinction. this is among the consequences of a relation to the bible rooted in projection, which is basic to the whole illusion that these texts can be read literally. jesus is just like those who believe, an image of what they do and say--if you find it offensive that, following this logic, it follows that a 2005 jesus would be a bigot and kinda blinkered in terms of self-reflexive politics, then the problem lay not with me, but with the christian right for producing this image, for justifying their reactionary, indefensable politics through it.
these folk do violence to your beliefs too lebell (insofar as i know anything about them by what i read from you here): i am surprised you are not more offended by them.
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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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