I agree - it makes one go back to Donne with renewed respect, both for
him & for the stringently humane reasoning he stands for here. This is
the side of Christianity I can wholly embrace:
/They therefore oppose God in his purpose of dignifying the body of man,
first who violate, and mangle this body, which is the organ in which God
breathes, and they also which pollute and defile this body, in which
Christ Jesus is apparelled; and they likewise who prophane this body,
which the Holy Ghost, and the high Priest, inhabits, and consecrates.
/"We are all Jose Padilla now", to quote Chris Floyd's comment on all
this. No man is an iland, intire of it selfe.
mj
Sheila Murphy wrote:
>Thank you for posting this, Doug. An important initial piece, and good to
>have this fine response as well. Sheila
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>On 8/17/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>so it has to do with a poet, if not poetry, & well worth the read:
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>>http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000907
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>>Doug
>>Douglas Barbour
>>11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>>Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>>(780) 436 3320
>>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>>Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>>http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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>>Every time Dick Cheney smiles
>>an angel in heaven
>>gets waterboarded.
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>> Jon Stewart
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Ne'er fash your thumb what gods decree
To be the weird of you or me.
Robert Fergusson
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