10. Further thesis: Milton tried to make Christian God more palatable to morality. Milton failed but his failure created fruitful tension.
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21. For all his jokes, Empson took both Milton and the Christian God seriously & engaged in a deep textual argument with them.
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22. It's the intellectual strenuousness with which Empson quarreled with the Christian tradition that I don't see in the New Atheists.
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@HeerJeet@RonRosenbaum1 Wish I'd read Empson before I scribbled this little thing on the Haiti Earthquake: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10c1J2t9FDOG5J6BPPMroMRqUmX1GVs7kKOa66-FZSqc/pub … -
@matthunte@RonRosenbaum1 Interesting will read. You might enjoy the Empson book. It is very odd but great and searching.
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