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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (41039)6/20/1999 2:51:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Respomding to your marvelous but incomplete list of religious based atrocities, I thank you for its small c catholicity.
It is fruitless to rank the horrors of enforced belief. Hamlet (actually Shakespeare or Bacon or Southhampton or someone) said "If we all get what we deserve, who'll 'scape whipping." Anyone who acts on others will do evil. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Who knows anyone's intentions of will. No man can be a judge in his own cause. Kant said the only good was the good will. But when people injure others "to save their souls" I deny that is a good will. Some of the worst people I know of were conquerors and some of the other bad guys were priests. There have been rotten defenders and atheists too. Ideas are not responsible for those who claim to believe them. I believe Jesus had a loving good will -- and learned through the travels of his ministry to love gentiles as well as Jews. I believe the high priests who destroyed him viewed him as a blasphemer. Certainly they would not have killed the Son of God or the messiach. As Jews there will was good. As men, they were evil through and through. If God or Peter killed Sapphira and Ananias for their withholding something for their old age from the early church, they were evil through and through IMO.
A good will is imponderable. We can only try to think good will to men. We may not always succeed.
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