Saturday, October 4, 2008
Benjamin Demott
The crux of the indictment is the assertion that Christ cruelly overestimated the intelligence of ordinary humankind. Christ’s promise of a truth that would set us free, free of material desire, tribal idols, conventional wisdom pragmatic realism – is too demanding and therefore intolerable. No craving is stronger in us than the craving for the loss of individuality. We seek disappearance into the herd and no wish is less controllable in us than our wish for dependence.
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