Ideas that have harmed mankind : Burtrand Russel
In ‘Ideas that have Harmed Mankind’ Russell scans the Evil Passions of human beings: Man feels delight in seeing others in sufferings as reflected in: Witch burning, beating of lunatics, beating children & wives for moral good, burning before sentence of death, Fighting wars on idealistic heroic & patriotic base, opposition to anaesthetics, human sacrifice for fertility of fields, Christian religious duty to butcher the loser’s tribe completely down to their sheep, fanning fears about after death- pictures of tortures. Then Russell scans the Im-Moral Ideas as: envy, jealousy, pride (leads to myths about superiority of class sex (men over women) race nation & religion (Chosen people of God) ), selfishness, human greed, believe that we all are sinners, self-importance, absolute certainty on allusions (chosen instruments of God to conquer the world as Roman, Nazis, Marxists, catholic and Muslims, having superior heaven, butchered soldier direct to Heaven, godl...
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