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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Incitement to kill?
The liberal poliical bias in the UUA - Beliefnet Forums: "I do not consider hate speech the only culpable incitement for sociopathological acts. Particularly from people in positions to claim to speak for a higher power. I am not speaking legally here. Just from the standpoint of society. 'God hates faggots, liberals, and Unitarians' is not saying go out and kill them. But if someone 'beset with personal demons' chooses to eliminate those whom God hates, can the promoter of that hate be held harmless? I think not."
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The question then becomes "who is the promoter of hate if it is not the entire human race from
Day 1 ???"
There is some speculation that homo sapiens my have "directly wiped out" the Neanderthals or at the least, driven them away from ancestoral hunting grounds and that act eventually led to the death of that proto-human spieces. The legacy continues.
I have a more benign view of humans than that. Most of the really ugly stuff is the result of following a malign leader, usually religious. Most humans would, if left to their own devices, try to get along with their neighbors, at least the decent ones which means most of them. I have always thought the most pernicious aspect of God beliefs is that God, and those who speak for God must be followed without question.
Kings and emperors have some of this authority, but are mortal and can be deposed or assassinated if they get too far out of line.
It has been clear to me that it takes a God to build up and perpetuate hate. Occasionally for good reasons, but usually because some mediator, priest or imam has a personal vendetta that gets warped into dogma. See Moses for the archetype.
Perhaps the Homo Saps invented God before the Neanderthals and God decided to hate and wipe out the heathens.
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