Finn,
Thank you for the post. The Altar of Diversity? I got a kick out of that.
Moral relativism, Finn, is in the eye of the beholder. Take the current issue of what constitutes torture. Whatever the US does or condones, can't be torture. Because we say so.
Finn yes you nabbed me, not only do I welcome diversity, last summer I had guests from, of all places, Austria!. they came into my home through the front door in full view of the public and sat right there on my public patio. One of them drank a beer or maybe even two. I swallowed my pride. This coming spring I have an honored guest coming to stay a week who is from GERMANY! Do you think he may be a Nazi? Will I reported to the government? Worst of all I have friends who are mexicans and even some native americans, well, after all I am an anarchist, what can you expect?
I thought you were the antichrist?
You mean you've only been an anarchist all along?
I think carrots have feelings.
But i just don't care.
Momma Angel wrote:Finn,
Thank you for the post. The Altar of Diversity? I got a kick out of that.
you might get more than a kick out of this, MA; it's by Nietzsche, the fellow F d'A quotes in his signature:
Quote: "I condemn Christianity," it begins. "I bring against it the most terrible of accusations that ever an accuser put into words. It is to me the greatest of all imaginable corruptions.... It has left nothing untouched by its depravity. It has made a worthlessness out of every value, a lie out of every truth, a sin out of everything straightforward, healthy and honest. Let anyone dare to speak to me of its humanitarian blessings! To do away with pain and woe is contrary to its principles. It lives by pain and woe: it has created pain and woe in order to perpetuate itself. It invented the idea of original sin.(1) It invented 'the equality of souls before God' - that cover for all the rancour of the useless and base.... It has bred the art of self-violation - repugnance and contempt for all good and cleanly instincts.... Parasitism is its praxis. It combats all good red-blood, all love and all hope for life, with its anæmic ideal of holiness. It sets up 'the other world' as a negation of every reality. The cross is the rallying post for a conspiracy against health, beauty, well-being, courage, intellect, benevolence - against life itself....
"This eternal accusation I shall write upon all walls: I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity,... for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, mean! I call it the one immortal shame and blemish upon the human race!"((2))
yitwail,
Thank you for pointing that out to me. I dare say I was a bit shocked by it.
I don't think it takes genius to condemn others with words. I think it takes cowardice and lack of understanding.
certified, I think by his sister who may have had motives.
i do give him credit for this rhetorical question (if it's genuine), "Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease?"
Momma Angel wrote:I don't think it takes genius to condemn others with words. I think it takes cowardice and lack of understanding.
pretty much what that dingbat in congress said about Murtha, she retracted her words upon learning the truth. Bush apoligized in her behalf.
I don't need anyone to apologize on my behalf. If need be, I can and will do it for myself.
That was strictly my opinion. Just as it was someone else's opinion that it was genius.
it does seem Nietzsche was ahead of his time, leaving aside the validity of his stance.
so MA can I assume you know the writings of Nietzsche? I only ask because you seem able to pass judgement on him.
I was not passing judgment on him, dys. Just as you have thoughts as to why someone does something, so do I.
You know my stance very well on anyone demeaning or belittling anyone, particularly for their faith.
You would question me passing judgment on Nietzsche? What would you call what Nietzsche was doing in that quote posted?
so MA you have read Nietzsche?
No dys. I haven't read Nietzsche. However, I did read that quote that was posted. I made my comment on the basis of that quote.
Now, was he or was he not judging Christians/Christianity?
