The gospel according to Havelock Ellis:
“The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.”
Wow. The “whole” of the world’s complexion of religious movements with all its freckles and pimples is the sole responsibility of one or two religions that surfaced in and around a small nation near the Great Sea.
Does this really make sense of the face of religion in the modern era?
Really?
And this is not some crazy sort of enlightenment. Buddhists would have something to say regarding these words that darken religious understanding. Hindus would have words about from what class system this man belongs to. These, among other movements, have brought distinct color and shape to the contours of religious courses in any university or institution of higher education. To deny such things is to highlight one’s lack of thought on the subject and a need for some type of medicated pad.
This is crazy stupid.
And I am finding that we have all become more stupid in merely entertaining the words of a man belonging in institutions that he claims to be scarce in the Holy City of the Hebrews. What could be said to be the real blemish?
Perhaps, Mr. Ellis wrote these words in the absence of his own faculties.
Perhaps, it is in vogue to blame the Jews for everything.
But it seems to me that this is just a breakout of crazy stupid.
