Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:51:47 -0800, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> said:
> Keegan Quinn <ice@wasteland.respond2.com> writes:
>> What drives the assertion that "demons are evil?" I'm neither
>> religious or highly educated on the matter, but I've never really
>> thought of them as such. Other summaries in this thread have
>> pointed out their neutrality. Can you provide some references?
> Well, it depends on what mythology you're working from. In the
> Christian mythology, which is probably the dominant context for
> evaluating that sort of question,
And, pray tell, why is that? Hindu mythology had demons far
longer than Christianity (indeed, probably longer than any of the
faiths of the descendents of Abraham). So what makes the Christian
mythology "more dominant"? (even by sheer numbers of adherents, past
and present, I would wonder if Hinuism would obviously have to cede
ground there).
manoj
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