Mon 22 May 00 21:42
In his excellent novel, _The Troublesome Offspring of
Cardinal Guzman_, Louis de Bernieres makes an observation
worthy of HolySmoke. At the beginning of Chapter 38 (p. 260)
he writes:
... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
* Origin: Nerve Center - Where the spine is misaligned! (1:261/1000)
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Don Martin
Thought for the Day
In all times and all places the principal attraction
of religions has lain in their license to do evil; that
this is so is amply demonstrated by the fact that as
soon as a faith loses its militant aggressiveness, the
number of its followers diminishes. A man who does evil
in God's name and purportedly by His command becomes
instantly justified, and the greater the evil he
perpetrates, the more holy does he seem to himself. In
the holy books of the world may be found precedents and
even injunctions to delight the heart of the Devil, and
both sides of any dispute find ample fuel for their
fires within the mazes of contradictions that can be
found therein. No proverb is more depressingly true than
the one that states that evil always pays good the
compliment of masquerading as it.
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