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.

- --
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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