On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
Moralist always win these arguments - they have the strength of their beliefs which allow them to justify all things to assuage their conscience and consequently have more at stake
I remember when I first read that the French masses, in their fervor to eradicate any traces of the Second Estate during the revolution, utterly destroyed the abbey church at Cluny, then the largest church in Christendom (including St. Peter's). Quel dommage! That time, it was a morally justified secular passion, but similar to the religious fatwas and iconoclasms, etc.
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