Some challenging thoughts “from brokenstones”:
http://frombrokenstones.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/unnatural-selection/
What would happen if we saw Nazi Germany as a movement that desired good for the human race instead of looking at it through the lens of it being a movement about hatred , determined to do evil.
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My guess is that we do not want to look at Nazi Germany positively through the lens of their being evolutionary revolutionaries. If we did, we might have to look a little more closely at our own love for the best and brightest, the glossiest, the strongest, the fastest…
In A Spacious Place 
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April 29, 2013 at 8:23 am
Tress
The article hit the nail on the head . Like you it troubles me that the whole of our society is aimed at material wealth and appreciation of the meaningless
in human terms.
May 1, 2013 at 8:33 am
Lindsay
“Judeo-Christian beliefs gave the Western and, ultimately, entire world its most important spiritual value: an obligatory reverence for life.”
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“Since the supreme value that we place on human life [is]learned from our culture, it can be challenged and replaced by less generous appraisals,” Mr. Brog says. “Our values are not written on our hearts with indelible ink. They have been pencilled in. They are subject to being erased.”
“We are brothers and sisters in faith because we agree on so many of the truly important things affecting our lives,” he says. “The values and the beliefs that we cherish are under assault both at home and around the world.” He describes, in detail, this assault – especially the one waged by people who assume that Judeo-Christian principles would survive the disappearance of Judaism and Christianity.
“It is tempting to assume that the morality at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition is easy and obvious,” Mr. Brog says. “Yet such a view stands in sharp contrast to overwhelming evidence to the contrary. If the 20th century proved one thing, it is the rapidity with which a society’s morality can shift and plummet. The experiments have already been conducted. The price has already been paid. We should at least have the decency to learn the lessons.” ~ David Brog
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/defending-the-faith-from-infanticide-to-genocide/article1378007/
Is this true? What I mean is, it seems the holder of these values which cherish the sanctity of life and place an obligatory reverence for life has shifted from religious law to secular law … Laws are pencilled in and easily changed … It just takes a few of people to change a law. … Laws get changed under the table all the time. Is religion the antidote or the enabler? Is secular law? What I mean is, look at what happened in WW2 in the name of religion. Look at what is happening now in Israel and Palestine. It seems sometimes that religion is an excuse …Also the same with secular law. I’m more inclined to believe in the hearts and common sense of common people … but we are also easily hoodwinked … open to suggestion. In the end I think it is we ourselves, en masse, our own desire for peace and prosperity which wins out … in the end … that we are our own corrective … in the end. If it wasn’t so, surely we (people) wouldn’t still be here … ?