{"id":46584,"date":"2015-09-12T04:18:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T04:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46584"},"modified":"2015-09-12T04:18:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T04:18:02","slug":"angels-considered-as-an-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46584","title":{"rendered":"Angels considered as an Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; when not dancing innumerably on the heads of pins ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I responded to <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46453#comment-154506\">a question from <strong>David Ronfeldt<\/strong><\/a> today by saying I don&#8217;t know of a book that offers a &#8220;a sustained, point-for-point, systematic, thorough comparison&#8221; between earlier Christian and contemporary Islamist religious violence.<\/p>\n<p>I do share his concern for point-for-point comparisons, however, and this one popped up as I was working on my response to David:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-angels-rank-clairvaux.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-angels-rank-clairvaux.png\" alt=\"SPEC angels rank clairvaux\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-angels-rank-clairvaux.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SPEC-angels-rank-clairvaux-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These two quotes are abstract, indeed metaphysical, I know, and don&#8217;t deal with human-on-human violence as such &#8212; but the <strong>DoubleQuote <\/strong>they form is nevertheless a point-for-point comparison, and the very exactness of its counterpoint gives it the sort of power the best haiku have, I believe, offering us wit in brevity, <em>multum in parvo<\/em>, small is beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; when not dancing innumerably on the heads of pins ] . I responded to a question from David Ronfeldt today by saying I don&#8217;t know of a book that offers a &#8220;a sustained, point-for-point, systematic, thorough comparison&#8221; between earlier Christian and contemporary Islamist religious violence. I do share his concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,307,627,753,655,758,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-david-ronfeldt","category-doublequotes","category-islam","category-mathematics","category-quant-qualit","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46595,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584\/revisions\/46595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}