Up@dawn 2.0

Monday, November 27, 2023

Not in this epoch

I imagine WJ might write differently, if he met some of the not-so-humble-and-tender fundamentalists of this epoch in America… the ones who think their "deep state" savior is a grifting, lying, pathologically narcissistic real estate mogul. They've clearly been affected by a different sort of modification.

"…in Christians of different epochs it is always one and the same modification by which they are affected: there is veritably a single fundamental and identical spirit of piety and charity, common to those who have received grace; an inner state which before all things is one of love and humility, of infinite confidence in God, and of severity for one's self, accompanied with tenderness for others."

— The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James(Annotated) by william james
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