On Evil

[leo-rcc]

Ah, so you think people on your list need to be killed but you don't kill them yourself so that makes it all right?

Your words on the "Right" part, I never stated a right or wrong...

Indeed you didn't, that is why I asked because that was not very clear.

And no, my list of people that would be better off dead, (In my opinion), would be, but I do consider myself to have some type of morals and would never do such a thing.... (You do realize the joking around before hand, right?)
But I do stand beside what I stated on, "Not loosing any sleep over them".

I hardly lose sleep over anything, so people I don't know certainly would not make me an insomniac. But I still wouldn't make a list of people who's deaths would be a positive thing though.

Which is why I feel teaching children critical thinking skills is paramount. That way they will be far less susceptible to the Comfort's, Cameron's, Ham's and Hovind's in this world. When a well known apologist dies or worse gets killed it only feeds the theists martyr fetish and solves nothing.

I teach my children just fine, and critical thinking, decision making etc is part of that learning process from which I'm handing down....

I believe you, I will even take that on faith.

Now as far as one of their saviors passing away, it may give them fuel for their fire, but two things with that. It only last so long and (depending on who it was that passed), there are some that are truly "One of a kind" in their own little special way... When Jerry Falwell died, I almost threw a party.....

I will admit that I have a hard time finding a detrimental thing to Falwell's death, however I do feel sorry for his family, a loss of loved ones is never easy. But the only thing positive I can think of was that Christopher Hitchens got an extra chance to piss people off. So what do you think is positive of Falwell's death?

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There is no evidence of that either way, so I don't see how that is debatable. I certainly think Fred Phelps considers himself very religious.

And I think he's far more concerned about the power he holds over others than his religion ... I think it's been that way throughout the ages with many powerful and "pious" people, that religion as a means to wealth, status and power is far more significant than it is as a philosophy.

And that is where it ends. Since neither if us can look in Phelps' mind we have no way of determining who is wrong or right in this case.