The uses of sacred space: a DoubleQuote
[ by Charles Cameron — these two tweets hopefully speak for themselves ]
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Merciless:
ISIS Jihadists Turn Churches Into Prisons in Formerly Christian City of Mosul: http://t.co/eRemDKRsFa pic.twitter.com/n0SyRj1Uev
— The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) December 3, 2014
and Merciful:
Kurdish mosque made of to church for Christian refugees who fled to #Kurdistan. #TwitterKurds #ISIS #ISIL #Daesh #USA pic.twitter.com/65QIbYzbUi
— Peshmerga forces (@salar_dd) December 4, 2014
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The world seems filled with these simultaneities of the gruesome and the glorious.
And what of man?
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no..
