Comments on: Good people, bad people, truth and lies

By: X Contra

X Contra — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:14:10 +0000

Thanks for posting that like to Holocaust Memorial Museum. I looked through all the photos from that gallery, especially Mengele.

Then I went to the museum’s family name lookup page, and I put in my dad’s family’s last name. Hundreds of names came up, Jewish and Catholic.

My 7th grade son just asked me why I was so sad, and I explained to him. He knew what the holocaust was, and he understood about the many lives that perished. Now he also understands that distant members of his great great great grandcestor’s family perished, a reason to be sad.

Thanks for the link. I have to spend more time on that database and figure out what all the annotations mean.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:06:50 +0000

I will make some controversy on the subject, I believe real good vs evil is similar to the classic Heterosexuals vs Homosexuals argument, are we all good? do we all think alike? ofcourse not!

On the argument of been Human and demonizing by doing evil acts, there is another saying that goes: “more than meets the eye” or “judge by actions not by appearance” people don’t think alike have different temper, character and do different things because of it evil people the same.

I really think evil people LIKE doing evil things, its very simple most people have insticts most of people are competitive and like sports, Hunting, fishing, etc but some people go the mile and like blood, murder, rape of kids, mass killing.

I really think good people are SLOWER to note people that are EVIL but are QUICK to Fight it.

Good people and Bad people, don’t think alike.

Evil People or Bad people are always trying to the bad thing, pushing the limits society lets them.

There is a difference among people.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:20:49 +0000

Your final paragraph absolutely rings true with my own perception of religion and faith when i was an ardent atheist. Now i have converted, as of a year ago, i have not felt as liberated, positive, focus or as happy as this – EVER!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:43:02 +0000

I love this one. It makes me think about abortion and all of the people who have bought into the lie that “choice” is good. You always hear, “IT’S MY BODY!” (no…it isn’t. It’s another human soul’s body) Perhaps someday we’ll be able to look back on abortion as we do the Holocaust.

By: psalm

psalm — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:16:30 +0000

Edit *but* to drive home….

By: psalm

psalm — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:15:02 +0000

I don’t have time to read all the comments but I know the moral argument often gets misunderstood by atheists. It’s not that atheists can’t act morally. No, that’s not the argument. If atheism is true, then there is no such thing as objective right or wrong. There is no objective standard by which to judge something as moral vs immoral. You have to understand what the moral argument is actually saying.

I’m Catholic buy to drive home the moral argument with my atheist friends, I role play as an atheist. They simply cannot tell me that some action is objectively morally wrong or right while sticking to their worldview (atheism).

I know Dr. William Lane Craig explains this argument in several short videos on youtube. He also uses the moral argument very successfully in his many debate victories over atheist opponents. Most serious atheist apologists will concede the moral argument.

By: MaricelaKerr18

MaricelaKerr18 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:22:24 +0000

Specialists tell that mortgage loans aid a lot of people to live the way they want, just because they can feel free to buy necessary things. Furthermore, banks offer consolidation loan for all people.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:09:20 +0000

I often watch shows like, 48 Hours Mystery and Dateline Mystery. With your husband being a lawyer, I’m sure he has pondered these things over and over. But it’s very rare for someone to murder another and then to walk into the Sheriff’s office and confess, “I did it, it was me.” Are they all liars? Are they all so hell bent on getting away with it so that they don’t have to pay for what they did? I don’t think so. Although not going to prison may seem like enough to make people who have done heinous things deny their actions, I think they deal with more shame and denial than we could ever know unless we’ve fallen into the same sort of mess. I think some of them wake up one day and say, “how the hell did I get here?” Many of them have justified their actions, and many of them may have even blocked the actual crime from their conscience simply because they cannot deal with the realization of the magnitude of how far their sin has brought them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:03:06 +0000

I came across your blog on good and bad people, and I'm commenting even though this topic is way past your article date of 2008.

I came to this thought BAD STUFF never happens to GOOD people.

Before anyone gets 'excited' at this extreme revelation...pointing out things like hitler and concentration camps and other bad...let me explain.

We hear it all the time in the bible and faith 'social circles'
GOD'S WORD really. It rains on the just and the unjust, the weeds and the wheat will live together for a time, Our Lord cautioned "I'm sending you like sheep amongst wolves" It's plenty clear isn't it? THE WORLD is NOT a nice place.
It's deceptive, hard, difficult.

BAD works side by side WITH GOOD.

When faithful people lose a home by hurricane, while the bad might have happened...they marvel that
THEY WEREN'T HOME AT THE TIME.
(or any other such miracle)

GOOD PEOPLE are not naive...they know 'bad' but THEY CHOOSE to have
eyes that SAY ... but LOOK WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE OF....

it's more than positive thinking.

It's a FAITH in GOD who provides amidst the 'weeds' and that abound.
THE STUFF always comes back.

All they need IS GOD...and THEY HAVE EVERYTHING...

THAT'S FAITH where FAITH COUNTS.

bad never happens to good people.
A GOOD GOD wouldn't allow it.

By: Firehand

Firehand — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:01:13 +0000

I am reminded of Reinhardt Heydrich, Hitler's 'Perfect Nazi'. Could, without a second thought, order mass hangings as reprisals, order mass murder of Jews and others, a horrible man.

And to friends, he was a smiling wonderful guy, very good with children and dogs.

Thing is, the friends and children and friend's dogs were real beings worthy of consideration, and the others were Jews and other sub-humans, so no problem.