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Skriven 2006-09-11 11:15:58 av Herman Neut (2:280/1141)
  Kommentar till text 38824 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Good vs. Evil
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Hi LEE,


   Quoting: LEE LOFASO to ALL
 Date/Time: 10-Sep-06 / 19:16:00
   Subject: Good vs. Evil

 LL> Five years ago, on 9/11/2001, an evil mastermind sent terrorists
 LL> on a suicide mission of pure evil, hijacking four passenger
 LL> airliners and slamming them into the WTC Twin Towers in NYC, the
 LL> Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, leaving over 3,000 innocent
 LL> men, women and children dead.

Remember it if it happened yesterday........

 LL> In retaliation, President George W. Bush ordered an invasion of
 LL> Afghanistan, and later Iraq.

I've always been against the invasion of Iraq. Against all international
agreements: ILLEGAL.
But Terror and Terrorists  have to be fighted against. That is sure.


 LL> Everybody knows that terrorists are evil. Everybody knows that
 LL> President Bush has declared a "war on terror".

 LL> But is it evil to fight evil with evil?

Sometimes we have to make a choice between evil and evil. Then we have to
choose the most "less evil".....

 LL> Or is it better to turn the other cheek, and say "Hit me again!"

NO!!!

But what "we" (GWB) did have cost more Amirican lives than sept 11th did.
Not to count all other, non-American, lives until today. And the end is
still not to be seen at the horizon................


 LL> Well, first one must figure out what evil is. And if one
 LL> understands what evil is, then from whence did evil come from?  In
 LL> other words, what is the origin of evil?

 LL> Is it possible that good can come out of evil? After all, we all
 LL> know that evil men can do good things.  And we know that good men
 LL> can do evil things.  Or is it that good is evil and evil is good?
 LL> What is good to one man might be evil to another.  And what is
 LL> evil to one man might be good to another.  So how do we really
 LL> know what is good and what is evil?

 LL> We say that God is good.  But define "good". We say that Satan is
 LL> evil.  But define "evil".

 LL> Maybe God/Satan are the same Person.

 LL> Kind of like a god with schizophrenia. Or at least a god with a
 LL> multiple personality.

 LL> One day He is good.  Another day He is evil. Or perhaps a bit of
 LL> both each and every day.

 LL> War is a game played by man.  One side tries to win, and declare
 LL> the other side the loser.

 LL> Religion is also a game played by man.  Except no side tries to
 LL> win, but rather to extend the game indefinitely to no end.

 LL> What happens when man mixes war with religion? Man is playing an
 LL> infinite game in an finite game. In that light, how can such a
 LL> game ever end?

We can see it every day, as long as there were humans.
War and religion. It didn't make any difference between all kind of
religion.
Every religion has and did have fanatic (dangerous!) fundamentalists...

I'm afraid it will never end.......


 LL> Perhaps President Bush should rename his "war on terror" as being
 LL> "The Forever War".  Just like Joe Haldeman's book of the same
 LL> name.

GWB a fundamental Christian??
Anyway there are (have been) other American Christians. Remember Martin
Luther King...

 LL> All comments welcome.

Best Regards,
      Herman Neut

 e-mail: h.neutnospam@hccnet.nl

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