As you indicated it is sometimes difficult to separate the the temporal from eternity. Lots of the massacres commited by the marxists, were done also out of paranoia and thus, emotion. I don't view the marxists as any cleaner, in purpose or reason then the religious witch burners, or the inquisitors. Stalins' slaughter of the Poles and Ukrainians, or Pol Pot's riddence of of those who could read and write, for example. It's all a form of group madness, seemingly.
Mitch -----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Fri, Jul 5, 2013 2:29 pm Subject: Re: John Leslie's 'Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology' On 7/5/2013 6:19 AM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Brent, please acknowledge that aside from the divine right of kings, the Atheist-Marxists did exactly the identical badness under the leaderships of Stalin,Mao, Pol Pot, the Kim Dynasty in North Korean, slaughtered tens of millions, tortured, deprived women of rights, slave labor, and specialized, in torture. All these scientific socialsts, all athesists. Just a way of putting things into perspective. But unlike the inquistion and the crusades those purges were just for political power, as has been done for millenia. They were not in the name of atheism. Of course religion has often been used as cover for the exercise of political power; but in some of the most egregious cases religious belief itself has motivated the atrocities, c.f. the Cathars. And why not - certainly if it takes torture and bloodshed on a mere temporal scale to avoid an eternity of torture then it is justified. Brent "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." --- Jesus, Luke 19:27 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
