ATDTDA 16..p 436+

[Mark Kohut]

"theory..crusades begin as holy pilgrimages"......
  "after a pilgrimage...you arrive.....perform what your faith indicates.....go home again"
   
  "But introduce to your sacred project the element of weaponry and everything changes"....436   "Now you need not only a destination but an enemy as well".....
   
  Comments on the profundity of this?......TRP seems to say.....the religious impulse is universal and various..........we would all be be able to honor that impulse.....
   
  But a weapon MEANS one must find an enemy.....even "fighting each other".
   
  A weapon is a binary tool, so to speak?......like Manichaeism it is either/or......no excluded middle....."The most striking principle of Manichaean theology is its dualism. Mani postulated two natures that existed from the beginning: light and darkness. The realm of light lived in peace, while the realm of darkness was in constant conflict with itself. The universe is the temporary result of an attack from the realm of darkness on the realm of light, and was created by the Living Spirit, an emanation of the light realm, out of the mixture of light and darkness."  from wikipedia, see full article....
   
   
   
   

       
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