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June 25, 2007

Paganism: "Spengler" out to lunch

Spengler-of-the-Asia-Times has been arguing, following Franz Rosenzweig, that "pagan society everywhere always is 'totalitarian' in character, and that Islam is a form of paganism masquerading as revealed religion." While Spengler as always provides much food for thought, his characterization of paganism, in particular of Greek paganism, is a travesty. I will focus here on what he says about individuality under paganism, ignoring his other dubious claim that paganism is a "culture of death" (which would probably have surprised the life-affirming pagan Greeks, for example—or, farther afield, the Taoist Chinese) . . . . CONTINUE

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