[Vision2020] More on Gandhi's methods and dark souls

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

I forgot to mention two points in my most recent posts.  First, Phil is not 
correct to say that Gandhi's methods work only in Western democracies.  The 
best example is the non-violent campaign that the Khomeni ran from Paris 
that led to the overthrown of the Shah of Iran.  People in Baltic States, 
Yugoslavia, Georgia, India, and the Philippines removed oppressive 
governments without violence and without the basis of a mature democracy or 
no democratic structures at all.

Second, I just wanted to add quotation marks around "dark souls" of Hindus 
in my post on uncertified pastors to indicate that it was the phrase the 
Southern Baptists used, not just my own words.

Nick Gier

"The god you worship is the god you deserve."
~~ Joseph Campbell

"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who 
represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
  --Mohandas Gandhi

"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be 
discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part 
by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the 
interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual 
life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and 
art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts." 
--Max Planck

Nicholas F. Gier
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho
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