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Pragmatism

This Fruit Stinketh to High Heaven

28 October 2021 By David Trounce

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Would you agree to the murder of one person if it meant saving a nation? This is the ethical dilemma often defended by the well-known statement, "the end justifies the means." Attributed to the 19th-century Russian revolutionary Sergey Nechayev, the saying basically means that … [Read more...] about This Fruit Stinketh to High Heaven

Filed Under: Who we Are Instead Tagged With: Death, Pragmatism, Reletavism

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.