Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate§308 Morality is just as “immoral” as any other thing on earth; morality is in itself a form of immorality.
The great relief which this conviction brings. The contradiction between things disappears, the unity of all events is saved —
There is nothing grown-up about behavior that is dictated by religious authority.
Susan Neiman, Why Grow Up?
Just so. To transform oneself into a dumb obedient farm animal is not a moral triumph, but a surrender to decadence.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate§307 He who knows the way fame originates will be suspicious even of the fame virtue enjoys.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate§306 The victory of a moral ideal is achieved by the same “immoral” means as any other victory: violence, lies, slander, injustice.
The inexhaustibly odious Peter Lumpkins, who managed to somehow frame Ergun Caner’s serial dishonesties as a Calvinist conspiracy to ‘get’ him, and Caner himself as a modern-day Elijah, is leaving Brewton-Parker College to work in his son-in-law’s church.
Pulpit & Pen thinks it probably is too late to save BPC from the mess that Caner and Lumpkins made of things.
No longer a pastor, and no longer wanted at Brewton Parker College, Lumpkins is now moving to be with his daughter and son-in-law. Lumpkins hitched his wagon to the wrong star, a charlatan star, and helped destroy a college in the process. And now, he’s leaving the ruins he helped create.
I’m not a Baptist and really have no dog in their fights but, yes … schadenfreude; it’s satisfying to see that smarmy, nasty sumbidg get what’s coming to him.
