mad stupidity & mydicrime: individual & universal?

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EVEN
granting the undecidability of texts,
the multivariate nature or hermeneutics,
and my own personal investments that lead me to read one way
and not another, I find it hard to imagine that anyone
who is not already inclined toward HK's hatred of Judaism
will find his paraphrase in PAUL's language,
and I think it unnecessary
even to produce an alternative reading
in this ridiculous
case.
~*~
~*~

HK's
affirmation
of THIS proposition,
whether or not it is Paul's,
reveals that he is still somehow managing to imagine that there is a self
that is NOT culturally
embedded?

-

PAUL
says nothing SO nefarious
but certainly does hold out the positive hope
of a humanity that will NOT be differentiated by cultural specificities!
Paul can be forgiven
HIS naivete.

-

HK is, however,
intellectually and morally unforgivable for his ignorance
of the critique of universalism
mounted in recent
criticism.

-

[HIS
appropriation of "theory"
seems limited to G.,
and G.alone!]

-

In the
wake of horrors
that have been perpetrated in the name of SUCH visions
of a humanity "not culturally embedded,"
HK's remark is simply
inexcusable.

-

I want
to underscore
this point:
IF
for HK,
"cultural embeddedness"
is the sin that dwells in our flesh,
then his politics will be a politics of
the eradication of cultural embeddedness,
which WE know, by now,
means the assimilation of all, willy-nilly,
to the culture that is defined
as NOT specific -
that of white
Christian European
'males' ...


~*~


THE
obvious charge
that suggests itself
is that HK is engaging in sacred violence
and scapegoating
of his
own?

-

He is
certainly aware,
although contemptuously dismissive,
of this accusation!

-

Indeed,
he devotes an entire section of his book to
"refuting" it:
If the solution to sacred violence is the renunciation of rivalry,
and if faith can take different forms,
each of them valid as long as they cab be classified under the heading of agape, why have I endorsed Paul's attack on Judaism?
Have I not been engaged in precisely the rivalrous behavior
that I have been criticizing,
rivalrously condemning
rivalry?


~*~


HK's answer is that,
"Clearly, a religious system
that kills innocent people 'righteously'
has less rational and moral justification than one
that cherishes all
in love."


It follows,
therefore, as the night follows the day,
that "the sophistic taunt that Paul scapegoats Judaism is, therefore, unworthy of serious
consideration."


Indeed,
such a "taunt" would be inappropriately directed at PAUL,
because Paul does NOT mount his critique of Judaism
on SUCH false grounds;
it can well be directed, however, at H.K.,
and it is MORE than a "sophistic taunt,"
a formal contradiction!



It IS
a damning charge
which discredits entirely ANY pretense he has
to a hermeneutic which claims to "escape mimetic violence into a new community of agapaic
cooperation."



~*~



The burden
of HK's book
is that the Jews really ARE
Christkillers.




NOW
we do NOT know if "historically"
there were any Jews involved in the killing of Christ,
NOR is there any reason to suppose that EVEN IF there were,
they represented the WHOLE People
or its religion?




What we
DO KNOW, however,
is that millions of Jews have been killed in Europe
[and in the "EUROPE" imposed on the rest of the world
BY EUROPEANS],
owing at least partly to THIS
scapegoating
slander.




Auschwitz,
Bangla Desh,
Christian "Crusades,"
Demagogic Economic Financial Genocidal
Hateful Hiroshima~
"ICE-AGES" a.s.o.
never ever
again?

~verliefdliefdesverdrietverliefd~
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