Focusing on the earthly plane, Ian Welsh gives us a tour of the denizens in the genus Republicanus wing of the American political petting zoo.
And Lance Mannion, in a three part series (and perhaps counting; he sounds like he's on that kind of roll where you write about it, post, think about it and post again, think of one more thing and post again . . . ) has taken on the neo-neo-Scholastic task of describing the population of the conservative heavens. My favorite moment:
The Calvinists call him Grace, but they're confusing him with a real angel called Grace, and they'd be better off always using their other name for him, Predestination.
The non-Calvinists, the self-styled libertarians, have their own name for him which they dare not use.
Social Darwinism.
Actually, his name is legion. I prefer to call him Go Suff.
Others know him as I Got Mine You Get Yours.
Whatever name he travels under, worship of his cult is simple. You just tell yourself, as you scurry away with your bag of loot, that however bad things look for the people left stunned and bleeding on the field you've just laid waste to that their suffering is ok because of all the benefits that will come to so many more people in the long run.
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