Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
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You ought to know.
Aye, we do. We observe evidence of it every day in the cheerful putrescence put forth by CR?N, Apprising “Ministries”, etc., etc…
in 4 simple words, “god” in Chris P has embodied Pascal’s point.
breath taking…
congrats, Chris P…there is none like you.
In my limited frame of reference, there is no blog that exhibits this so exhaustively as SoL. At least she is the best at something.
Even hospitalization and the joy of a coming birth doesn’t temporarily halt the literary violence.
Another way to put it:
Good men do good and evil men do evil. But to make a good man do evil and an evil man do good takes religion.
Rick,
remember? talking about a publicly known birth is online gang rape.
please refrain.