Gods of the world unite.
At one time I claimed a sort of organic polytheism. It was after the fashion of Ishmael Reed in the prototypical theory of multiculturalism. The basic idea still works which is that one must have a certain amount of respect for the disciplined pedagogies embedded in the various ways religions and cultures evolved.
But of course by accepting that premise, one must of consequence reserve the greatest amount of respect for those religions and cultures which have evolved the furthest. This is where I part company with multiculturalists and polytheists who seek to promote and elevate alternatives at the express expense of that which is Christianity and American culture. As usual, they fail to dig with any specificity into a true comparitive discipline, so long as you can trash America, whatever culture or rite is vindicated.
That said, there is some value to a disciplined expression. What would English be without French idioms? It would certainly lack a certain je ne sais quoi. But I wonder what we might get from Voodoo.
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