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Quote from Gil Bailie,

"The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed."



By:

Gil Bailie (more quotes by Gil Bailie or books by/about Gil Bailie)


College Fellow at Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, author, lecturer

Categories:

Conscience, Violence

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