Heh, who was it that I was telling that as a kid I found it much easier to believe in cosmic evil, hell, etc., than a cosmic good and heaven and God? I don't know, maybe that's what I get for being a glass-half-empty person. I read about the Holocaust at a younger age than I suspect most kids do and the way religion was taught to me far emphasized the existence of jinn and iblis over the glory and goodness of God (which may be part of why the emphasis on love in this book surprised me). This is actually from Tea Obreht's Harper's article about vampires in the Balkans (I should post excerpts from that article), but in Indonesia (as it is apparently in the Balkans) "the light" is only there to protect you from "the dark." You learn about "the dark" first, you know "the dark" instinctively. And quite frankly "the light" is only as good as its protective quality. You will literally switch "lights" if that's what it takes. And this extends to political figures as well...
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Date: 2011-04-15 01:52 pm (UTC)Just a different way of looking at things.