Half the world is insufferably stupid and the other half fantastically deluded or pretending to be.
Yes, I am thinking of religion, morals, and their offspring, political ideology.
Of these fantasies, some are more benign than others.
How different the world would be if the Buddhists had successfully proselytized Saudi Arabia before the birth of Mohammed, for example.
How much safer, less violent, and less cruel.
On the other hand, the notion that polytheism is less violent than monotheism is not true of all cases.
The religion of the Aztecs, for instance, was far more bloody than the Catholicism of the Spaniards who put an end to Aztec violence.
About the arrival of Catholicism being something of a rescue for the Native Americans of the region Mel Gibson was quite right.
Though of course he said that as a Catholic believer who thinks of missionaries as saints, martyrs, and heroes.
I was just thinking of all that horror the Spanish stopped.
As the attacks on his movie made clear, neither of us complies with the PC thought police on this point.
Interesting, isn't it, the hypocrisy of 20th Century liberals who denounce the 19th Century liberals for their conviction of the cultural superiority of the West even as they do their level best to foist their feminist and gay rights agendas on the entire world?
On the other hand, the notion that polytheism is less violent than monotheism is not true of all cases.
The religion of the Aztecs, for instance, was far more bloody than the Catholicism of the Spaniards who put an end to Aztec violence.
About the arrival of Catholicism being something of a rescue for the Native Americans of the region Mel Gibson was quite right.
Though of course he said that as a Catholic believer who thinks of missionaries as saints, martyrs, and heroes.
I was just thinking of all that horror the Spanish stopped.
As the attacks on his movie made clear, neither of us complies with the PC thought police on this point.
Interesting, isn't it, the hypocrisy of 20th Century liberals who denounce the 19th Century liberals for their conviction of the cultural superiority of the West even as they do their level best to foist their feminist and gay rights agendas on the entire world?
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