[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for that quote, tpaine!

[tpaine]

IMHO, the Westernized civilizations of this day and age - which was built upon Judeo/Christian values - takes the broad view that all human life is equally precious.
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The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation. We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
-Arthur Koestler-
794 tpaine

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Thank you so very much for that quote, tpaine!
808 -AG-

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Perhaps if you and Betty reflected a bit deeper on Koestlers point, you would realize that it applies equally to those who are fanatically devoted to "Judeo/Christian values" .

[tpaine]

IMHO, the Westernized civilizations of this day and age - which was built upon Judeo/Christian values - takes the broad view that all human life is equally precious.
788 -AG-

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The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation. We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
-Arthur Koestler-
794 tpaine

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Thank you so very much for that quote, tpaine!
808 -AG-

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Perhaps if you and Betty reflected a bit deeper on Koestlers point, you would realize that it applies equally to those who are fanatically devoted to "Judeo/Christian values".
--- Those who claim that a-theists are irrational.