Negative Space: Bible
- I Kings 13
- God tells you not to listen to people who say that they know better than you what God has said. Never believe what someone else tells you is the word of God.
- Satire in the vineyard: The parable of Lolita and the sheep
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Opposite stories in the New Testament are a lot like modern satire. When Nabokov tells the parable of Humbert Humbert, he is telling us that everything in the news is false. When Jesus tells the parable of the lamb, he is telling us that everything the world values is false.
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- Matthew 5
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Matthew, chapter 5, from the Catholic New American Bible. “He went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them.”