When approached literally the Book of necessity takes on a number of other characteristics. Everything in it must be factual and nothing outside the book can contradict those facts. The very possibility of scientific investigation is sacrificed a priori to the need to proclaim the text's inerrancy. Every word of it must be the unalterable and unchanging word of God, which of course can contain no contradictions. One of the ironies of fundamentalist reading is the rather considerable constraints it places on the deity. He proclaims and what he says remains so forever, beyond growth, development, change, revision. Whatever abomination of sex hatred one unearths from Leviticus must remain gospel today. The Book cannot be read progressively or retroactively, despite Christ's repeated claims to cancel the old law. An eye for an eye remains true for all time however out of keeping with the law of charity. After all, "It's in the Bible." That repeated assertion expresses the essence and fundamental paralysis of the literal mind.
Inside this quote is embedded a powerful observation about the consensual consciousness of the citizenry of the US that votes for and supports Rove's minions. To be able to ignore the obvious, to abandon logic and rational thoughts, to live comfortably with the most absurd of paradox--these folks have mastered the art of living insane. They can claim the most literal rendering of scriptures that within even a couple of pages represents the most opposal of pronouncements, and demand that others see them with the same clarity. That these passages are in direct contradiction to one another is no problem for them at all. that the US operates in the same manner, is perfectly faithful and believable. And so begins the madness of the failure of this Empire.
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