Our secular prophets have heralded the Good News: there is no God; we are but accidental apes...The shackles of superstition are broken, the potential of man unbounded, his glory unlimited but by the constraints of his imagination. Yet as we celebrate our exalted humanity, the technology we worship brings glimpses of a darker reality, flashed in some subliminal message quickly dismissed as aberration or sideshow.
We may reflexly think of those who partake in such ghastly exhibitionism to be but beasts -- but to think thus insults the animal, whose nobility far exceeds our own...It is only the human animal who ventures into the subhuman, in glorification and gleeful pursuit of perversion for pleasure, of violence as theater.
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