Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 17:09:25 -0700
Reply-To: Mark Weigand <mweigand@usa.net>
From: mail.usa.net@usa.net
Subject: Re: Fw: God and atrocities
To: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com,
        Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist
	Violence Studies
	<revs@csf.colorado.edu>
Thanks for the comments. I know very little about the Baha'i religion, but I 
would have to question the notion that evil is an illusion, entirely relative or 
simply "a lack of goodness" in the world. Surely there are examples of 
objectively real, deliberately undertaken evil practices (the holocaust for 
example). There is nothing illusory about genocide. In my judgement, the 
holocaust does not represent an illusion of evil in the world or something 
entirely relative which can be explained away as a passive "lack of goodness in 
the world". Real people were involved, real choices were made, real deaths 
occurred. If we cannot accept such genocidal policies as an example of 
objectively real evil (no need for religious interpretations here), then we must 
abandon any universalizable standard of evil.  -=MW=-