#sacrilege

I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#sacrilege #jesus

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high grass, never see the boar in the thicket. Only a religious person can perpetrate sacrelige: and if its blasphemy reaches the heart of the question; if it investigates deeply enough to unfold, not the pattern, but the materials of the pattern, and the necessity of a pattern; if it questions so deeply that the doubt it arouses is frightening and cannot be dismissed; then it has done its true sacreligious [sic] work, in the service of its adversary: the only service that nihilism can ever perform. (unused 1949 prefatory note to The Recognitions) ↗

— William Gaddis

#dogma #enlightenment #insight #inspirational #nihilism

Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#nobel-prize #obama #sacrilege #men