S U N D A Y   S N I P P E T S (tm) # 1 2 3               19 Apr '98

		Thinking Comparatively is No Sure Guide
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"[If] you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans
cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking,
humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on
that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been
content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or
chastity.  You will see at once that this is an impossibility.  From
considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some
inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked
to them, and hence, how both must look to God."

                        - from "The Problem of Pain",  by C.S. Lewis

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