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self for whose sake they could venture everything, no self before
God—however self-seeking they are otherwise. (Ibid p.74.)
Kierkegaard is right, though it makes a difference how others write
their names into the history books and what is written after they
are gone. If they leave a mark, it is mostly by revolting, the revo¬
lution of the failures. They consider this a great, world-changing
act, to be celebrated year after year. They even make it a public
holiday. And on that day also they hate, because that is what they
celebrate with.
2. And in addition to all of this is the internal hate, which
is to say the hate we direct towards ourselves. What is it
Launcelot says? “This making Christians will raise the
price of hogs...” In other words, accommodation is a sign of weak¬
ness. If that accommodation is surrender, it is because I have recog¬
nized through it the strength of that which opposes my strength.
One expected accommodation is assimilation, and even then it is
expected that anyone who satisfies it be looked down on precisely
because they are weak (as was done in great numbers in Germany
in the 1930s, for example). Tertium non datur.
Let us turn back to Prosper Merimée. What is it he wrote?” The
majority of the nation took part in it, either actively or by saying
nothing. They armed themselves to attacking the Huguenots,
whom they considered alien and hostile.” The Catholics saw the
Huguenots as alien. They lived in France, they spoke the same
language, and we can know from different sources that even a day
before the massacre they were each other’s loving neighbors. They
did business with each other, all to everyone’s great satisfaction.
A day passed, and that night (the time of day is significant) the
Catholics brutally and happily cut their favorite neighbors’ throats,
raped them—for the greater glory of God—and dragged them
along the wharf, so that, after they had hanged and burned them,
they could dump their corpses in the Seine. It was just one night.