(urth) Damn filthy Hiero-wasp-creatures
David Duffy
David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au
Mon Jan 7 17:59:23 PST 2008
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:39:52 +1100 Stanislaus <sbocian at poczta.fm>
> wrote:
>> Hello thalassocrat,
>>
>>
>> The most important difference is that most religions and
>> philosophies have very different value structures from the modern
>> one. Killing nearly all people on earth certainly was not good,
>> but in the neoplatonic view it was very far from real, important
>> evil.
>
> That for me would be an enormous argument against ever signing up
> for a neoplatonic religion. Really, I think part of Wolfe's
> intention is a critique of those kinds of religious sensibility [...]
Unfortunately I am not au fait with theological thought about the
Noachian Flood, but I suspect it is not usually regarded as an
evil by RCs.
David Duffy.
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