Thanks Abject,
One of my favourite events is the Milton /Shakespeare debates and I understand why Milton wrote a sequel. Nobody affirms the joy of serving in Heaven or the agony of ruling in Hell.
Jefferson wrote his American Bible The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth in 1820.
Milton was secretary to The Lord Protector. Milton understood why Jesus wept.
Milton was a Deist and understood there is no such thing as Divine Justice.
Empathy is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.
I am often told how terrible the world would be without religion. In Quebec religion is banned in our public places. Race, gender and religion are not real in Quebec's secular humanist liberal democracy.
I just got up to answer the phone but my wife had already picked up . It was our Health Department making sure WE were ok and making sure we knew not to go out in this heat.
That is what REAL democracy looks like
In a real democracy the people rule and the Princes serve.
It doesn't detract from Shakespeare's brilliance or his love of Elizabeth.
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a Crown."
Milton's Satan and Jesus are two sides of the same coin.
When Elizabeth died the English Civil War became the bloodiest war in English history. The Roundheads and Cavaliers were all Christian Soldiers and Cromwell led because he was most adept at slaying Catholics.
Here in Quebec The Thomas More Institute is a liberal Arts learning center dedicated to lifelong learning.
In America the Thomas More Society is a collection of tyrannical legal pedants dedicated to creating lifelong misery.
It is the same Thomas More and the same Utopia.
It is time for the law to serve justice. The Supreme needs to serve in Heaven not rule in Hell.