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To: DameAutour
The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad ass it was made out. Is one's first feeling, `Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies as bad as possible?

I have been guilty of this. I don't think I even saw just how bad and unChristian this is. We must be careful of having this attitude against "enemies", for example, Muslims or leftists or Bill Clinton.

3 posted on 07/16/2005 2:40:29 PM PDT by DameAutour
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To: DameAutour

Absolutely. Highly relevant for today's WOT.

Fascinating how he manages to avoid both the "kill em all" attitude of some on the right, and the liberal refusal to condemn evil as being evil.


5 posted on 07/16/2005 3:16:12 PM PDT by Restorer (Liberalism: the auto-immune disease of societies.)
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