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To: The Philosopher who wrote (41050)	6/19/1999 11:39:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

I see. So pretending to have a good motive, or believing that you have a good motive, makes murder not evil. How convenient. Here is a Baptist site that states that 50 million were murdered for being so-called heretics: >>>>>17. I again call your attention to those upon whom the hard hand of persecution fell. If fifty million people died of persecution during the 1,200 years of what are called the "Dark Ages," as history seems positively to teach, then they died faster than an average of four million people every one hundred years. That seems almost beyond the limit of human conception. As before mentioned, this iron hand, dripping with martyr blood, fell upon Paulicians, Arnoldists, Henricians, Petro Brussians, Albigenses Waldenses and Ana-Baptists, of course much harder upon some than others. But this horrid part of our story we will pass over hurriedly.<<<<< bryanstation.com

To: The Philosopher who wrote (41050)	6/19/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<Depends in part on whether you evalutate the evilness of an action with hindsight or then-sight. To us now, it was certainly evil. But in many cases they actually believed they were saving souls; were in fact doing good works for those people, keeping them from the Devil. Not all cases, I agree, but some.> Gee, another reason for inflicting the Ten Commandments on public school children? Because the Christians BELIEVE they are saving souls? What if they are wrong, like they have been so often in the past? Wouldn't it be more gracious of them to practice their beliefs quietly among themselves, instead of inflicting them on the rest of us?