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Updike! : Comments

By Peter Sellick, published 11/8/2014

Updike was a churchgoer all his life. He studied some divinity at Harvard and read Karl Barth. He said the Lord's Prayer with his children at bedtime. However, his Christianity did not seem to comfort him or rein in his adulterous behaviour.

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Speaking of exoteric Christian-ism being entirely utilitarian, I am half way through reading the book by Jeff Sharlett titled The Family Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite.

The kind of applied politics and "culture" that the highly influential Family promotes on a world-basis is entire utilitarian - all the way down the line.
It is even deliberately brutal. Even while they pretend to be promoting the "lordship" of "jesus".
Posted by Daffy Duck, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 8:37:07 PM
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