Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)
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On 05/05/07 09:29, Joe Hart wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/04/07 13:15, Joe Hart wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Well,
>>> Good is a relative term. To some people something is good while other
>>> people think the same thing is not good. For example good food.
>> Human sacrifice was considered Good by the Aztecs, as was burning at
>> the stake and hanging by the Protestant witch hunts and Spanish
>> Inquisition.
>
> Exactly, but we consider human sacrifice today to be a bad thing.
That's my exact point. What we consider murder, they considered
politics and religion.
> Historically Americans also thought that destroying Indians (more
To me, this is a great paradox of American history. The US Army
*could* have slaughtered *all* the "savages", man woman & child.
But they didn't. There were (broken, of course) peace treaties
(that even the SCOTUS tried to enforce) and Reservations on
"sub-prime" land.
I see an internal American clash between, on the one hand, Christian
civility, and on the other, traditional human greed and conquest.
> politically correct to say Native Americans) but that was certainly
> genocide, which is now an international crime and frowned on by almost
> everyone.
>
>>> Evil is generally considered a bad thing, but Evil is also the first
>>> name of a good motorcycle stunt man.
>> Evel, not Evil, Knievel.
>
> My bad. At least it is pronounced the same.
I'd have thought you'd have recognized "Evel Knievel" as a Dutch name.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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