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St. Thomas Aquinas claimed that angels and the first couple (Adam and Eve) were unable to commit mortal sins because they were granted immunity from concupiscence.

[Now, I will expand on the vignettes that closed the previous two blogs and ask:

How does this apply to the leaders of modern Public Cults?

Are the leaders of Public Cults unable to commit “mortal” sins?  Or has the word “mortal” shifted to “think^anti-object” for the Public Cult?  Hmmm.  It is funny how the words change but the pattern of “venial and mortal sin” remains intact.

Rene Girard was correct.  Mythology is told by the winners.  For the Mythology of a Public Cult, the winners are the founders.  The winners are the ones who fashion themselves as instruments in the service of the organization.  I will label these minions of think^pro-object the “golden calves” (artistically recalling and playing upon the incident in Exodus that delayed the coming of the tablets of the Law).

Modern cult leaders, such as the late Hugo Chavez, are equivalent to angels. They  herald a new era; announcing that a think^group has grasped sovereign power to become think^pro-object.  They are as foundational as Adam and Eve. They animate spirits bearing torches of darkness (or more precisely, of false accusations).

Does that also mean that the Dear Leader is immune from concupiscence?

The answer is “yes”, in a world where “concupiscence” has been redefined.  The sovereign think^group, think^pro-object proclaims a new system of differences.  Even the long discarded but still pertinent word, “concupiscence”, can mutate in an evolving symbolic order.  “Concupiscence” now refers to the accused.  It can never point to the Dear Leader.

In the closure of the world to think^divine, sovereign think^pro-object brings all society into organization through some object.   The Dear Leader embodies that object.]