If there's one thing that reveals to me the poverty of contemporary left thinking, it's the way Agamben, Badiou, Zizek and now, I'm hearing it on YouTube as I write this, Simon Critchley, bang on about St. Paul as if he was the greatest man to change his mind, ever.
Come on. Paul was and is used by Evangelicals as a big stick to beat people with—that's what I remember from all the Bible studies I had the misfortune of attending, when I was briefly peer-pressured into Christianity at age 13. At a school called St. Paul's...believe me the school was not into revolution.
Doesn't it enable these guys to sound pious? Spilt religion anyone?
And another thing. The amazingness of his changing his mind must have something to do with the amazingness of the contents of his mind. If you really aren't into Christianity I would have thought it would be a better idea not to keep on reproducing the Paul meme. Does anyone else feel this way? I mean I've just had it with this Paul stuff!
