You are missing the point Phil. The difference between Islamic
militants and the west is that we stopped killing people on religious
grounds after the enlightenment. So the comment about that passage in
the Bible is moot I suggest.
What I find interesting is that Jeff likes his hero's to have the
capacity to say, stead burn, and achieve heroic things (like beat off
the crimson bat).
And there are folk like me that don't like their hero's to do such
things. I mean, crimes of passion followed by remorse and stuff is ok
but otherwise, in a heroic fantasy setting I just find unappealing.
I think I feel that way about my Glorantha because its fiction, and I
am aware of the hand behind the fiction, where as history is, well
history. Events that have happened. I don't read horror stuff for
pleasure because I don't like the thought that someone sits there and
thinks that shit up. I did like Lovecraft though, how fucked up was
he?
I think the nub of it is I am not interested in such a (IMO) heavy,
depressing and oppressive reading of Glorantha, where as Jeff
delights in it. Each to their own - YGWV and all that. :^)
Regards
Rob
- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "Phil Hibbs"
<snarks_at_...> wrote:
>
> I was going to write something sensible about morality in the case
of
> religious conflict when you "know" that your enemy is evil and is
corrupting
> your people, but given which list this is I decided instead to up
the ante
> by bringing the Bible in, which is always good for a bit of
controversy:
>
> Deuteronomy 20 (NIV):
> 16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is
giving you as
> an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17
Completely
> destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,
Hivites and
> Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.
>
> Evil or not evil? Vote now!
>
> Phil Hibbs.
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> Don't you just hate self-referential sigs?
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