DISTINGUISHED
HOW ARE PERSONS DISTINGUISHED FROM NON-PERSONS?
ANT 6055H a graduate Anthropology course asks & then goes
on to ask: What kind of person is pre-supposed in acts such as
promising praying or pledging? Is the self performed and if so what
are the moral implications of this? Likely the Pope has come to mind
A performance of the highest order played out last week when he met
secretly with refusenik-clerk jailed for barring same sex couples brave+
loving from marrying Kim Davis of Kentucky said: I teared up when
the Pope wanted to meet a small person like me it was humbling and
such It is doubtful that Kim even knows what humble means This sounds
more like hubris to me
The Pope gave her +her husband Joe plastic crosses then he blessed them
The main thing is: Pope Francis brought them into the Holy See in secrecy
Is it blasphemous to say he knows not the meaning of duplicity mendacity
Did he pull the wool over the eyes of an entire continent?
Likely he took advice from the Horned One who by his very nature is divisive
warring +homophobic A hater down to his red toes Was a time when the Great
Horned God was wise before humans projected all of their shadow onto him then
made his poor brother pay the price for our sins
Should the Pope reclaim his shadow he will easily see that the world needs many
many more LGBT couples fearless enough to enter into holy matrimony Something
that the Pope nor his minions are ever likely to do While the ranks of the sexually
abused by members of the clergy have grown 10 fold in the 20th century
Pope Francis did acknowledge their rapes +is the first Pope to use this word Yet
how many hundreds of accused priests will be tried & jailed? He failed to give these
details or plastic crucifixes to the victims he met
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Ignorant of what they are not unaware of things they are
their memory is lost as Eden their anger the same as fear
And I am still alive and I am still ashamed
(Al Purdy The Others + On Being Human)
Fall 2015
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