The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Lilies, the Devil, and Rainbow Colors A Brief History of Our Sacred Symbols Vuk Bačanović Sarajevo’s first Pride march in which took place on 8 September 2019. Participants are marching under the slogan “Ponosno zajedno” (Proudly Together). Photo credit: Antonio Balic This year’s Sarajevo Pride produced exactly what contemporary politics increasingly specializes in: a symbolic scandal. A participant dressed as the Devil marched at the front of the parade, another wrapped Bosnia’s medieval lily emblem in rainbow symbolism, and within hours social media was flooded with warnings about sacrilege, national humiliation, and moral catastrophe. In a country that has survived war, ethnic cleansing, state capture, mass corruption, deindustrialization, and the systematic looting of public wealth, it was apparently a young man with a rainbow flag who finally crossed the red line. Let us set aside, for a moment, the fact that the struggle against discrimination based on whom people share the...

  The Truth Unvarnished Peeling away centuries of patina Radio Far Side The American Society of Theatrical Religious Spectacle (ASTRS Inc.) has for decades been well paid to promote an absurdity commonly called “Israel,” with the official name of Zion Inc. Banking on the profound ignorance of the general population and their lack of motivation to actually study history, Zion Inc. has convinced millions that it has exclusive rights to a strip of desert formally known since AD137 as Palestine. The greatest of the myriad absurdities is the idea that YHWH is the Christian god. A quick reading of John 8:44 should put that to rest, but ASTRS Inc. assiduously avoids focusing on inconvenient passages in their sacred texts, in order to sell a fairy tale of critical military and geopolitical importance. The second greatest absurdity peddled by Zion Inc. is the idea that “Israel” is the homeland of the “Jews”. Again, actually reading the four canonical Gospels should dispel that illusion, but...