We talked together about the unholy alliance of evangelicals with the Straussian post-modern neo-conversatives, like Wolfowitz, Perle, Cheney, et al. As we talked it occured to me that it was not merely that evangelicals liked their access to power, even a Nietzchean will-to-power, but that the key is a common centrality of the human will as mediating reality to both. For the Nietzchean neo-cons, the will creates reality; for the evangelicals, the human will is a conduit for the divine will. Both manifest themselves in power -- the neo-cons, the power of the nation-state; evangelical, the power of God that overrides other power. While the Nietzcheans no doubt privately see the evangelicals as pawns for their agenda, the evangelicals see the United States as a pawn of the divine agenda -- a manifestation of the divine power. Thus, though they are rabidly opposed to each other, they nonetheless think the other is being duped by their own agenda. In the process the world suffers under an aggressive imperialism to control world oil supplies, given divine sanction. Scott Ritter reported yesterday that the United States has begun military activity IN Iran already in Aljazeera. The Washington Post today said that the Pentagon has hired a private firm to collect data on all high school and college students. How do you spell d-r-a-f-t? How about "c-o-n-s-c-i-e-n-t-i-o-u-s o-b-j-e-c-t-i-o-n?

I suggested that Rodney write a book on the subject -- no one better that I can think of! We then discussed other projects for the future.

In the future I want to blog more on voluntarism, and understanding God's power as distinct from God's nature, God's Being separate from God's Triunity.