This post from J. Harrison at inanis et vacua, and this comment (#14) at this post at Crooked Timber, are both about something that I'm meditating on or around, and that nothing in the Judeo-Christian moral scheme gets near, as it's codified and practiced.
I'm going to try and get something down about that soon, but this for now.
Mary Catherine Moran doesn't seem to have a personal web presence or I would link to it, as I like her writing.
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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica
Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.
Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors
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