Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!orion!houca!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!unc!bch From: bch@unc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: A public response to Mr. D. Plank Message-ID: <5430@unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 02:31:28 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.5430 Posted: Thu Jun 23 02:31:28 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 20:19:27 EDT References: ihuxi.465 Lines: 15 Ray, I think somehow you missed the point again. Fanatics and martyrs are driven by evil as well as good causes. One's dedication to a cause is no measure of the correctness of the cause. Lot's of people in history have been dedicated to a cause beyond all reasonable expectation. If we like what they are doing we call them dedicated. If we don't understand what they are doing we call them fanatics. If we *dislike* what they are doing we call them psychotics. The intensity of their belief is measurably the same irrespective of *what* they believe. Lots of folks have written major works under terrible conditions. Paul is one. Adolph Hitler and the Marquis de Sade are others. That they were all equally dedicated to what they were doint g does not mean I have to respect all or any of them. Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill