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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Tom Cod <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: I was intrigued when I was in the Middle East and actually a temple to > Baal from circa 200 BC partially intact, a domed structure in the > sophisticated Hellenic style. Very interesting. Where was that? I recently visited the Philistine temple of Dagon supposedly demolished by Sampson in Gaza. (Today it's the Great Mosque, of course.) > In our 50s US world in church school, however, Abraham-as depicted by > Charlton Heston-was praised for willing to sacrifice his son. Oh > sure, God would never have made him do it, but Abraham mindless (call > it "faith") willingness to obey such a command from a rightful ruler > was considered most praiseworthy and part of what the Free World and > the American Way were all about. > I imagine Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling may be a more intelligent (which is not necessarily to say valid) defense of Abraham. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
