L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. at The Imaginative Conservative.
"How are we to respond to the ever more frequent collision of our seemingly incompatible belief systems? Mr. Klavan [Spencer Klavan, 'Idolatry in Lockdown,' Law and Liberty, January 28, 2021] is right to conclude that, when reconciliation fails, believers 'must worship as we are called to, no matter how imperiously today’s would-be Creons' threaten us. Further consideration of Antigone's plot demonstrates, however, that even theological conflicts are resolvable if approached in the right spirit. Indeed, a key lesson of the play is that fanaticism results when public actors fail to practice the one virtue capable of moderating the excesses of human nature: political prudence."
See Sophocles, Plays, Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 5, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 4.
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