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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
Now I have no issue with JW receiving criticism, since I think it is a dangerous movement for individual members. But from my view it is hard to distinguish them as any more dangerous than more typical conservative evangelicals.
The world would pretty much have to be a near-utopia for "typical conservative evangelicals" to be classified as "dangerous." Secularism is typically far more "dangerous" than evangelicalism
.
For example, much is made of the carnage of the Spanish Inquisition over about a 300-year period (as well there should be). However, to put that in perspective, Stalin killed more people in an average
month during his reign than the Spanish Inquisition killed in
300 years total.
Then again, if Carl Sagan is correct, and we're just basically "stardust", then death, destruction, mayhem, torture and the like are just examples of nature doing its mindless thing, so "eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we all shall die."