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Originally posted by Oscar View PostVarious are the ways which lead to God's knowledge...;)
"At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols."
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."Last edited by Kansas Bear; 18 May 08,, 19:14.
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Originally posted by Kansas Bear View Post"At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols."
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
Hitler didn't start the Nazi dance for religion.
Stalin didn't kill his millions over religion.
Neither did Mao.
Nor Pol Pot.
So for the last 100 years or so, it seems that your quotes above, at least the second one, haven't really applied.
-dale
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Well Hitler, Stalin and others just substituted their ideologies for religion, the fanaticism and cruelty they kept.
Some believe in god, others believed in Lenin.For Gallifrey! For Victory! For the end of time itself!!
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Yes they were, it was just a different type of religion. Religion in its esssence is a distillation of all the least attractive parts of human behaviour, ignorance, inflexibility, intolerance, violence and idiocy.
The core of religion, the fanatic belief in your own ideology to the exception of all else, the hatred of 'infidels' or in this case 'capitalist pigs' was all there.For Gallifrey! For Victory! For the end of time itself!!
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