This being the summer reading-season I've picked up Michael Gaddis' There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ, concerning religious violence (by Christians) in Late Antiquity (and not just in the Rhomanía). I am halfway through it.
For Barsauma (whom we've met, on a different level), Gaddis should I think be updated.
Gaddis' main points (heh) will likely stand. What used to be blog.jim called the "holiness-spiral" is real. Razib Khan refers a lot to Gaddis' book so - yeah.
Gaddis published this in 2003 and this hardcover is the book I got (at a usedbook shoppe). Gaddis did it through UC Berkeley which I find, personally, fascinating. Apparently some Californians quietly agree, on account there's a paperback edition as of 2015. When I was in Berkeley in 2005 the place had "World Can't Wait" / "By All Means Necessary" posters everywhere, basically urging Direct Action against that horrible horrible right wing right winger George W Bush.
In retrospect perhaps BAMN wasn't a fight worth fighting, on either side; as Roger Pearse a couple years ago figured for the Donatist-Catholic schism. Which schism features highly in Gaddis' work.
I am mainly impressed that Berkeley allowed this slyly anti#woke text through their editors, undercover of being an antichristian text. It may be that's the only way to get anti#woke into scholarly publication.
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