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The anachronistic Biblicism of Alabama.

Driving the back roads of Central Alabama I hear people interpreting the daily news according to the Bible. “Unprecedented times” they say. Never in history before… Profound ignorance of history and biblical belief leads again to such apocalyptic nonsense.

In a museum in central Weimar I recall a display with a quote a quote written the day of the funeral of Frederick Schiller by a leader of the nascent bourgeoisie , when most of the population went to a new entertainment in the nearby park:

…als ob er [Schiller] nicht unter uns gelebt hätte.

Literary struggles with God and godlessness in differing streams of ideas and beliefs in society

The president among the truly hopeless.

How to make the days more real than the trees… the light…?

What would by some be named the American Civil War, most believed would end in a few months…

Those on all sides going to war in 1914 believed they would be home by Christmas…

Certainly, the English would not finally declare war on Hitler’s Germany with the invasion of another country Poland… The Wehrmacht would take Moscow before needing winter gear…

Certainly Moscow would rule Kyiv within a week or two after February 24, 2022…

Monsters, now widely disbelieved… one can at least thank the nights for ambiguities.