Comments on: Welcome to 1050. http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/ Missives From the Reality-Based World Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: The New Missionary Position at The Indigestible http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-106 The New Missionary Position at The Indigestible Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:22:06 +0000 http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-106 [...] Dangerous is one adjective; fucking stupid is what I’d be more inclined to say. The Catholic commentaries on science have proved, over the centuries, to be false; why in hell would anyone imagine their record with human health would be any better? Remember, this is the same church that said, recently, Hitler and Stalin had been possessed by Satan. [...] [...] Dangerous is one adjective; fucking stupid is what I’d be more inclined to say. The Catholic commentaries on science have proved, over the centuries, to be false; why in hell would anyone imagine their record with human health would be any better? Remember, this is the same church that said, recently, Hitler and Stalin had been possessed by Satan. [...]

]]> By: Warren Ockrassa http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-7 Warren Ockrassa Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:49:23 +0000 http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-7 ts & pwe, thanks for the excellent points, both of you. And … and … if it's GOOD for me, how can it be EVILution? ts & pwe, thanks for the excellent points, both of you. And … and … if it’s GOOD for me, how can it be EVILution?

]]> By: pwe http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-5 pwe Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:32:14 +0000 http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-5 <i>This is truly transcendently stupid. The Daily Mail, among quite a few other sources, is reporting that the Vatican — possibly in an early run to begin apologism for its current Pope’s history — has gone on record as saying that Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the Devil, which is why they were such awful, awful men.</i> So Darwin had nothing to do with it after all. What a relief :-) <i>I can understand that. But in the year, century and millennium we currently inhabit, falling back on this superstitious idiocy is unconscionable. (Next thing you know, we’ll have representatives of world government insisting — against centuries of historical fact — that intelligent questioning of those in power is somehow wrong.) It’s saner and safer to face, directly and without resort to magical thinking, the very real fact that the seeds for Naziism lie in all of us, as do the seeds for prosperity, peace, lovingkindness and genius.</i> Exactly! Isn't the claim that some people are possessed by Satan exactly as dangerous as claiming that they have anti-nationalist genes or are contra-revolutionaries? The very idea that you can identify absolutely the bad guys is the root of all evil, imho. Just my $0.02. This is truly transcendently stupid. The Daily Mail, among quite a few other sources, is reporting that the Vatican — possibly in an early run to begin apologism for its current Pope’s history — has gone on record as saying that Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the Devil, which is why they were such awful, awful men.

So Darwin had nothing to do with it after all. What a relief :-)

I can understand that. But in the year, century and millennium we currently inhabit, falling back on this superstitious idiocy is unconscionable. (Next thing you know, we’ll have representatives of world government insisting — against centuries of historical fact — that intelligent questioning of those in power is somehow wrong.) It’s saner and safer to face, directly and without resort to magical thinking, the very real fact that the seeds for Naziism lie in all of us, as do the seeds for prosperity, peace, lovingkindness and genius.

Exactly! Isn’t the claim that some people are possessed by Satan exactly as dangerous as claiming that they have anti-nationalist genes or are contra-revolutionaries?

The very idea that you can identify absolutely the bad guys is the root of all evil, imho.

Just my $0.02.

]]> By: ts http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-3 ts Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:24:09 +0000 http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2006/08/31/welcome-to-1050/#comment-3 Most people do not belive they are capable of evil, there fore they happily do evil thinking it good. Most people do not belive they are capable of evil, there fore they happily do evil thinking it good.

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