XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   x wrote:   
      
   > On 1/18/26 02:51, Blueshirt wrote:   
   > >   
   > > God and the Devil are two sides of the same [made-up]   
   > > coin. So if you don't believe in one, you can't believe   
   > > in the other. Dave doesn't seem to be able to grasp   
   > > that one... despite having it pointed out to him many   
   > > times.   
   >   
   > The word 'diabolis' means 'to cast against'.   
   >   
   > The word 'God' and the word 'good' were the   
   > same word in Old English.   
   >   
   > Either way there is something called 'Summum   
   > Bonum' or 'Absolute Goodness' and 'Summum Malum'   
   > or 'Absolute Evil'.   
      
   There's definitely goodness and badness. People can choose   
   to behave in a good way... or they can choose to behave badly.   
   But I doubt their badness is because they have been possessed   
   by a Devil. Humans have both traits in them, our free will   
   chooses which trait we expose to the world at any given time.   
      
   People shouldn't need a [holy] book to tell them to be nice to   
   one another, or be possessed by a demonic spirit to do bad   
   things! For me, God and Satan are artificial constructs...   
   people behave how the choose to behave off of their own backs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)