09 December 2010

Like the feelings an infant would have

The fall of the ancien regime left a void in the political construct of European society. With the aristocracy gone from its position of leadership something else needed to replace it. The racists insisted that a superior race, the Aryan race, could take over the duties and responsibilities of leadership. 
The racist dream is really a wish for simple authority once again to rule in the land. The yearning for a benign, legitimate authority is nearly as profound an impulse in human society as is the yearning for justice and the search for desert. The demise of the ancien regime is an on-going crisis in the affairs of men. Truth be told, the prospect of a world without legitimate leadership is experienced by most as a matter of severe distress, hysteria, and frenzied search for someone to fill that role. It is like the feelings an infant would have upon first discovering it was abandoned by its parents. 
The biblical regime presumes a more mature self-understanding, one where the yearning for leadership has moved beyond the infantile and where abundance is met by a people capable of adult, autonomous self-possession, able to enter into covenant with a diety and to serve as His consort and peer and not merely as His subjects and children. 

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