Saturday, May 02, 2009
Galileo or Bruno
Carrie Prejean has done two unusual things for a public figure. First, she gave a heretical answer during the Miss USA pageant. Predictably, the Inquisitor Prince swore an Anathema against Carrie, and she lost the pageant.
At that point, if she had been obeying the modern Catechism, she would have gone on a national Penance Tour, bowing down to every available Prince and weeping in Eternal Contrition. After several hundred public recitations of the Self-Criticism Formula, and after a year in Career Purgatory, she would then be allowed to resume public life, but only as an Official Acolyte of the Feminist-Homosexualist Orthodoxy. That's the Galileo path.
Instead, Carrie did a second unusual thing. She took the Bruno path, the Luther path. Hier steh ich, und kann kein anders. Instead of humbly submitting to Recantation and Re-Education, she has emphatically repeated the Heresy, making it clear that her initial (somewhat garbled) answer wasn't an accident. And she has joined forces with a Heretical Organization.
It will be interesting to watch the result. Some religious/ideological tyrannies are unstoppable: resistance leads to death. Others turn out to be surprisingly fragile: when people start walking through Checkpoint Charlie, the regime implodes. ¶ 7:57 AM
At that point, if she had been obeying the modern Catechism, she would have gone on a national Penance Tour, bowing down to every available Prince and weeping in Eternal Contrition. After several hundred public recitations of the Self-Criticism Formula, and after a year in Career Purgatory, she would then be allowed to resume public life, but only as an Official Acolyte of the Feminist-Homosexualist Orthodoxy. That's the Galileo path.
Instead, Carrie did a second unusual thing. She took the Bruno path, the Luther path. Hier steh ich, und kann kein anders. Instead of humbly submitting to Recantation and Re-Education, she has emphatically repeated the Heresy, making it clear that her initial (somewhat garbled) answer wasn't an accident. And she has joined forces with a Heretical Organization.
It will be interesting to watch the result. Some religious/ideological tyrannies are unstoppable: resistance leads to death. Others turn out to be surprisingly fragile: when people start walking through Checkpoint Charlie, the regime implodes. ¶ 7:57 AM
