--- Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > many interesting points have been made in the God > fearing vs evil discussion on Goanet. > My belief is that pure evil and a solid faith in God > can both exist. > Be it the Hindu caste system, or the christian > inquisition, evil people have invoked God to commit > inhuman atrocities on their fellow beings. > Mario responds: > "Pure evil" suggests a sustained and ongoing effort to harm others, as compared to someone who may commit an infraction occasionally. > Invoking God as an excuse for doing "pure evil" hardly leads sequentially to the logical conclusion that the perpetrator was "God-fearing". Simple logic would indicate that they did not fear the consequences that an awesome God may have for them. > In the meantime the atheist evildoers, whose body-count is far higher than those who pretended to have religious affiliations, needed other excuses, mostly political repression as all of these were avowed communists. >
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