Quoth Wojtek, in part:
> ............. The messianistic cults which, if memory serves,
> were the brainchild of the Hegelian right, had two distinctive features:
>
> (1) they claimed that members of a national- or ethnic-identity group
> experience suffering more than those of any other groups, and solely
> because of their identity group membership; and
>
> (2) there is a historical purpose [for] that suffering, usually stated in
> eschatological terms (i.e. the deliverance of that particular group or the
> entire humanity).
Considering such dynamics, we can't ponder any too wildly the final
consequences of the 51-day media spectacular conducted in 1993 by
damnfool Feds who had obviously flunked out of Introductory Psych.
It has already created Timothy McVeigh and his singular deed,
which, combined with itself, now likely constitute a composite creature
growing to scriptural heights in angry, hardscrabble, vindictive cabals
inhabiting every corner of this happy land.
Will the New Testament be overwritten by an entirely American fable
wherein God's son is deleted by a soft finger at a golden keyboard?
That might depend upon future imbecilities by the hegemons of New York
and Washington, and not very many.
valis
