Gutsy Judge - Australia

Confronting the Scimitar expression of the primitive Sacred, I rather like this Australian Supreme Court judge. As Gil Bailie notes in his recent London Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference address, Christian Virtues Gone Mad, and elsewhere, when one's "shining example" was a warlord, one may without moral turpitude act in a "might makes right" way.

The textual justification for the Scimitar makes this amply clear. So, granted those presuppositions, exemplars and teachers of the ways of the Scimitar dehumanize opponents and "legitimately" (as per above) victimize them.

Blessedly, as in the case of this Australian magistrate, some in the West stand against this encroachment of the primitive Sacred. The Scimitar is one pincer of the primitive Sacred in our world; the recrudescence of the idolatrous pagan is the other pincer. I applaud Judge Peter McClellan and pray him long life and continued prosperity.