I’m going to go light on y’all today. Light from me, but heavy from someone else, namely Gerard Van der Leun.

About a year ago I read a blog post that stuck with me even to this day, and that’s saying a lot considering how many posts I read and how many posts are in existence (last official count was somewhere in the 500’s, internet-wide). The only problem was that I lost the permalink to it. Well, I recently found it again.

It’s about monotheism vs. omnitheism, and was a response to an interview with author Peter Watson in the NYT. Certainly not a fitting subject matter for a blog about design, but the writing is phenomenal no matter what you believe. And this is a staff blog entry, a sliver of internet space granted to spread my silly wings.

To wit:

Without monotheism, ignorant and unquestioned statements such as Watson’s would be quite literally ‘unthinkable.’ Without monotheism, Watson himself would not exist. His strain of DNA would have long since perished childless building yet another brick ziggurat to Mardukor Zababa in some dust choked suburb of Babylon; unwept, unburied, unremembered. Like so many other charlatans who style themselves as “historians” in this age of stunted intellectuals and scholars ignorant of their subject, Watson simply does not know what he is talking about. And he is more than willing to share the nothing that he knows.