Religions > Atheism > David Brooks: Tsunami "Bad" Because We Can't Demonize the Dead
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"Yang, AthD h.c, Kicking AWOLs Cocaine Snorting Ass" |
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03 Jan 2005 02:37:32 AM |
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David Brooks: Tsunami "Bad" Because We Can't Demonize the Dead |
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/opinion/01brooks.html
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"...One person freakishly survives while another perishes, and there
is really no cause for one's good fortune or the other's bad.... There
is no human agency in these stories, just nature's awful lottery..."
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but of course it's better to say that they deserved to die
because[1]...
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"Stories of a wrathful God implied that at least there was an active
God, who had some plan for the human race. At the end of the
tribulations there would be salvation... "
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[1] To be fair, Bobo qualifies this by saying something to the effect
of "I don't want say say that it would be better to think that these
people deserved to die", and then following up with an argument saying
that maybe it would be better to think that these people deserved to
die.
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
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| User: "Crazyalec" |
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| Title: Re: David Brooks: Tsunami "Bad" Because We Can't Demonize the Dead |
05 Jan 2005 06:53:18 PM |
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Yang, you are an idiot because you were molested by a priest. Just
accept it.
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