“The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“In sharp contrast to their pagan contemporaries, Israel’s remembrance of the past was marked by two tendencies: a faith in Yahweh’s fidelity to the… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“The very word, religio—to bind (ligio) back (re)—suggests exactly this. Thus these ancient cultures remained profoundly backward oriented. This ritualized return to a primordial… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“It is when we ask about the nature of this catharsis that we discover that culture itself represents something like the fruit of the… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
“As we shall see below, without that tinge of moral remorse, however, there would have been no catharsis, and therefore no surviving culture.” — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
