I really don't have too much to say about the text. I personally consider my self an atheist, meaning not that I don't believe in God or that I doubt his existence but rather that I have rejected the idea of God as a whole. For me both texts -The Pleadge of Alliance and The Thanksgiving Address - portraits an ideological divinity that sometimes (most of the times) blinds more than clarifies. The idea of divinity is pretty clear in The Thanksgiving Address and is portrayed by the idea of nature as God. For me is the most balanced and well though idea of a superior entity but it still remarkably contempt for the chaotic subject matter it is trying to understand. In the case of the Pledge of Alliance the divine entity is the republic, the flag, the founding fathers and the amendments that are followed with the same pride and taboos that any major religion.
I do understand the intentions of the author to portray a more balanced understatement of the world through the coalition of this two perspectives of the world. I also have always found appealing the idea of the lack of private properties that the native people all around the "new world" had and how that created a more divisive cultural clash perpetuating the violation, genocide and land possession of the "old world".
I nonetheless don't feel any special interest for the comparison as I think it is founded in a creed and in a rather mystical oratory (both prayers) that for me only represent a yearning of good behavior and a non-practical self appreciation of our own well being. I for example think that "Our Father" prayer is a beautiful text but it doesn't let me reconcile the atrocity that have been made in that Father's name.
I do understand the intentions of the author to portray a more balanced understatement of the world through the coalition of this two perspectives of the world. I also have always found appealing the idea of the lack of private properties that the native people all around the "new world" had and how that created a more divisive cultural clash perpetuating the violation, genocide and land possession of the "old world".
I nonetheless don't feel any special interest for the comparison as I think it is founded in a creed and in a rather mystical oratory (both prayers) that for me only represent a yearning of good behavior and a non-practical self appreciation of our own well being. I for example think that "Our Father" prayer is a beautiful text but it doesn't let me reconcile the atrocity that have been made in that Father's name.
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| Santiago Mataindios, S XVIII, Catedral De Cuzco. |
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