Damn filthy Hiero-wasp-creatures

David Duffy · 08 Jan 2008, 01:59 · from 2008-January.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:59:23 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Damn filthy Hiero-wasp-creatures
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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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