Over 200 people died today in Sri Lanka as victims of bomb blasts at three hotels and three churches. It was Easter Sunday. The President of Ireland posted a statement on the attacks : “At a time of religious significance”? When the people killed were in church? Perhaps President Higgins had just been searching his iPad on Google and was confused about why the people were in church (sorry, “places of worship”). After all, Google (at least in its mobile mode) didn’t seem to know. Or maybe, like myself, President Higgins was spending the weekend reading Joseph Campbell —that great source of religious wisdom behind so much of our modern myth-making ( see Star Wars ). I read this passage this morning right before going to church: The recognition of the secondary nature of the personality of whatever deity is worshiped is characteristic of most of the traditions of the world. In Christianity, Mohammedanism, and Judaism, however, the personality of the divini...
To quote a great environmental activist, Do Trees Have Standing? Do inanimate objects have rights, unto themselves, independent of their makers or owners? I think, yes! But how to define and protect these rights? Maybe Fencing Bear can bring a lawsuit...
ReplyDeleteP.S.--I really wouldn't worry too much about copyright infringement, despit what Neal says. Just invoke "creative adaptation" of the original.