Fresh Batch #38: Casuists & The Science of Husks

Hæcceities, Identities, Quatenuses, & Legerdemain

“If thou canst not think as I do, I condemn thee not. Use thy native Freedom; but remember, that though Mens Reasons and Opinions vary as do their Faces; yet Truth is homogeneous, uniform, and ever of the same Complexion, in all Ages and Nations.” —Mahmut Hali, 1672 AD

Mahmut observed nearly four centuries ago that which still plagues the minds of the masses at the present. He wrote a letter to Dgnet Oglou, “There are a Sort of Men among the Nazarene Ecclesiastics, whom they call Casuists. These are profoundly vers’d in the Learning of the Schools, which (if thou rememberest) honest Father Antonio, the old Sicilian Priest, our Friend, used to term, The Science of Husks. A dry chaffy Sort of Knowledge, consisting only of empty vapid Notions, windy Ideas, Distinctions made in Sand, which may be effaced, alter’d, or form’d at Pleasure. The very Contemplation of these Metaphysical Trifles, is enough to put one in a Fever; so subtle is the Poison they contain: A Spiritual Venom, which darts like Lightning through one’s Thoughts, and soon ferments the Soul, boiling our Reason up to scum and froth itself away in Divine Jargon and Religious Nonsense.”

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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1813

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