Aquinas and the burning of the heretics

Eric Watt Forste (arkuat@pobox.com)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:08:31 -0700

Rhodes writes:
> p.s. Mr. Forste, would you please address me by my surname.

I trust that if I show cooperation with your wishes, the favor will
be returned by your providing a bit of the information I've requested.
(Were such cooperation not to be forthcoming, I cannot imagine why
you would be seeking to elicit my own cooperation with your request.)

P. S. You can call me Arkuat if you like. You can even call me
Kundalini Alfredo if you like.

> [earlier quotation of Rhodes's remarks elided]

Fascinating, Rhodes.

And now who is it that you propose to carry out the burnings...
the Holy Father? Or are you volunteering for the job? Or were
you hoping for the initiative to be taken up by one of the
religious leaders in Iran, since your own Church seems to be
suffering from a bout of spinelessness on this issue?

Oh, wait, you're probably going to invoke the holy angel of
Democracy... it would be interesting to see a Democratic
construction of Aquinas. Actually, I'm having a great deal of
difficultly imagining such a thing, so I crave further
enlightenment as to your position.

(You've got me thinking, though, Rhodes... perhaps you're not as
much of a black sheep here as you seem. Perhaps you really *do*
belong here on the Nietzsche list with the rest of us violent amoral
Fingers of Shiva. You certainly seem to share Fritzi's enthusiasm
for cutting out what *you* perceive to be diseased flesh.)

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