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To: Chris land who wrote (38630)	5/30/1999 6:41:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Lots of people, such as Nazi soldiers (as Reagan pointed out) and Bolsheviks, have died for what they believe in with as great a faith as any Christian. The validity of an idea does not depend on the willingness of its believers to die for it. The willingness of martyrs to die for arbitrary ideas does not convince me of the validity of those ideas. I don't even respect people who die for ideas that appear to be worthwhile to me. Jesus was full of wild, fantastic ideas that appear to me to be insane. Socrates let himself be killed from despair (the same despair that Jesus showed on the cross), rather than for some substantial reason. Aristotle, when he fled Athens, said he was not prepared for Athens to make injure philosophy again. A very sensible man, in my opinion. When one knowingly sacrifices himself effectively to fight hate, cruelty, or pain or to save innocent life I have respect. I think those who die to preserve a form of government that gives hope to those who want to live in peace and freedom deserve our respect. I think my ancestors who died on the wrong side of the Civil War threw away their lives willingly for evil reasons. I have no respect for them. I am a very demanding descendant.

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