thread: 2005-06-06 : Happenings
On 2005-06-06, Brand Robins wrote:
Vincent: You said, "I'm concerned about how any set of principles becomes, so easily, a salve for your conscience when you do something inhumane. Are (say) Richard Dawkins and James Randi guilty of this? Almost certainly! Are they as guilty of it as 2000 years' worth of Christianity?"
Or 2500 years of Buddhism? Or 1500 years of Islam? Or 5000 years of imperialism?
There's a lot of man's inhumanity to man out there. The question of how deep it runs, and where and why, is fascinating but not always easy to answer. Jesus/the Party become the same in some minds, and opposites so complete they may as well be the same in others.
"Brand, have you read the Krakauer book by any chance?"
Nope, though as soon as you mentioned it I added it to my massive backlog of "things I must read now." (It's just after "Theatre of the Opressed" which strikes me as funny.)
