What is divine violence?
Who decides?
Who is Saint lugi?
Was this guy, the commander in chief of his own destiny?
Some folks, would like to think so...
Let's ask ziezek.
"Divine violence should thus be conceived as divine in the precise sense of the old Latin motto 'vox populi, vox dei;' not in the perverse sense of 'we are doing it as mere instruments of the people's will', but as the heroic assumption of the solitude of sovereign decision. It is a decision to kill to risk or lose one's own life made in absolute solitude, with no cover in the big Other. If it is extra-moral, it is not 'immoral;' it does not give the agent license just to kill with some kind of angelic innocence. When those outside the structured social field strike 'blindly,' demanding and enacting immediate justice/vengeance, this is divine violence." Slavoj Žižek
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