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Re: staying awake through Chomsky....
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Tuesday, December 2 2014, 10:02:31 (UTC)
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"...I find myself able to stay awake when listening to him...and it's a good thing he has such interesting and provocative things to say because if he was a high school algebra teacher I would have checked out of his class the first day.

One of the interesting things he said about Christianity was that for its first 300 years it was the religion of the poor and marginalized, the powerless and oppressed and therein was its attraction to the masses of poor and slaves...but, when Constantine made it the religion of the Empire, it was transformed into the religion on the powerful, the wealthy, the torturers and conquerors and enslavers, and it's been that way ever since.

It pays lip service to the poor, throws some crumbs of wealth their way, but it has provided support for every Fascism and Empire ever known."



-- Great point!

p.s. I was on Michael Parenti's Facebook Page when a read a comment by a guy who pointed out that he finds Chomsky's lectures to be the perfect means to put him to sleep --- this man, perhaps being facetious, wrote that he personally prefers Chomsky, BUT... "he puts me to sleep". "Whereas Michael," he continued, "each time I listen to any of your talks, I feel full of energy and impelled to getting out and organizing people."



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