{"id":4209,"date":"2012-07-18T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T12:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2013-02-24T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T17:29:40","slug":"our-job-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2012\/07\/18\/our-job-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Our job, then, . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4210\" title=\"Kenneth_Burke\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/69.89.31.52\/~drslewis\/camille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Kenneth_Burke.jpeg\" width=\"220\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But above all, I believe, we must make it apparent that Hitler appeals by relying upon a bastardization of fundamentally religious patterns of thought. In this, if properly presented, there is no slight to religion. There is nothing in religion proper that requires a fascist state. There is much in religion, when misused, that does lead to a fascist state. There is a Latin proverb, <em>Corruptio optima pessima<\/em>, &#8216;the corruption of the best is the worst.&#8217; And it is the corrupters of religion who are a major menage to the world today, in giving the profound patterns of religious through a crude and sinister distortion.<\/p>\n<p>Our job, then, our anti-Hitler-Battle, is to find all the available ways of making the Hitlerite distortions of religion apparent, in order that politicians of his kind in America be unable to perform a similar swindle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Kenneth Burke, &#8220;<a title=\"Philosophy of Literary Form\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/56103342\/Burke-Hitlersbattle\">The Rhetoric of Hitler&#8217;s <em>Battle<\/em><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But above all, I believe, we must make it apparent that Hitler appeals by relying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[268,290,341,414],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speak","tag-fascism","tag-fundamentalism","tag-hitler","tag-kenneth-burke"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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