Sunday, January 28, 2007
Slightly OT?: truth vs the truth
This is slightly off topic, I fear, but reading Jay's thoughts on Kristeva and the challenges of speaking to and engaging with questions of religious ideology and absolutism, I was reminded of Nick Bromell's recent American Scholar essay, in which he uses his friendship with Scooter Libby, the vice president's former chief of staff currently on trial for perjury, to reflect on fundamentalism and how one grapples with it honestly, both at the personal and on the public level.
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Doug, it's hard not to think like the snowman with temperatures in Cincinnati dropping to the single digits at night. But, joking aside, I agree. It has taken me a long time to recognize that there are real possibilities for finding a middle ground, even between irreligious liberals and militant Christian conservatives. I just don't think the prevailing political situation, nor the simplifications of the media, will allow very much space for it.
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