diff --git a/Moloch.md b/Moloch.md index fc4680000..2964260c6 100644 --- a/Moloch.md +++ b/Moloch.md @@ -8,3 +8,8 @@ - #pull [[Engels]] [[Marx]] [[Ginsberg]] [[Alexander]] - #push [[burn Moloch]] - We could [[burn [[Moloch]]]] if we have to, but only peacefully and for the greater good. + +-- + +- [[Moloch in literature and popular culture]]: + > In the 19th century, "Moloch" came to be used allegorically for any idol or cause requiring excessive sacrifice.[1] Bertrand Russell in 1903 used Moloch to describe oppressive religion, and Winston Churchill in his 1948 history The Gathering Storm used "Moloch" as a metaphor for Adolf Hitler's cult of personality.