Posted on 10/01/2024 4:57:53 AM PDT by Stepan12
I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school.
I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil.
What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to anti-communism.
To my amazement, a great many people -- specifically, all leftists and many, though not all, liberals -- hated anti-communists far more than they hated communism.
Because of my early preoccupation with good and evil, already in high school, I hated communism. How could one not, I wondered. Along with Nazism, it was the great evil of the 20th century. Needless to say, as a Jew and as a human, I hated Nazism. But as I was born after Nazism was vanquished, the great evil of my time was communism.
Communists murdered about 100 million people -- all noncombatants and all innocent. Stalin murdered about 30 million people, including 5 million Ukrainians by starvation (in just two years: 1932-33). Mao killed about 60 million people. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) killed about 3 million people, one in every four Cambodians, between 1975 and 1979. The North Korean communist regime killed between 2 million and 3 million people, not including another million killed in the Korean War started by the North Korean communists.
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Currently, the only sin is to call sin, a sin.
BUT...the unrighteous don't care about an alleged 'kingdom' and aren't worried about any consequences because they allegedly only happen after death.
I mean, if you are a murdering rapist you certainly have no care for consequences, now or after death.
Ego and ignorance.
I see examples of it even here on FR. They are even more prevalent on FB, Twitter, etc.
When called up to defend a statement, it is perceived as an attack. That makes them defensive.
After that comes the volley fire. Remarks are traded back and forth, abandoning pursuit of facts because (they believe) it's about right or wrong. I'm right/he's wrong. They both end up fighting to the death, with neither one willing to budge nor Willing to consider other information.
For example: go to a religious thread. People (who claim to be so virtuous) can get very nasty.
Latin is a rather droll and dry language to speak in. It’s importance is in being the root of most words in English and the other Romance Languages, as well as world-wide in just about all Scientific/Legal Communities and Professions.
Simple example: Non-caveat emptor
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