LINK: I submit the following from J.P. Carter at evangelical outpost as a very pithy and accurate summary of Protestant ethical thought. Oh, and a fine example of how to be pissed off at something someone says and to turn that into a positive argument for your own position, using ample citations to back up your position.
"Does Ms. Postrel think that Saddam is some form of human anomaly? Does she believe that he's simply a psychopath and that he differs so much from “good” people like...well, like her? If so I believe she has a misguided and naïve view of human nature. She would do well to reflect on the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian who understood the nature of man all too well:
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart?
I know where the line between good and evil is drawn. I've looked deep into my own heart and trembled at what I saw. And that, Ms. Postrel, is reason number 7, 598 why I’m not an atheist."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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