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Craig:
Scary how quickly people can be manipulated.  But for the grace of God.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/25/sbm.perpetrators/index.html

Craig

Ninny:
Scary? No that is is bone chilling! It just makes you sick to think how that can happen! :'( :'(
Kathy :(

Patrick:
Quote from the article;
"You don't have to be mentally ill or even innately evil or criminal. You can be ordinary, no better or worse than you or me, and commit killing or genocide," said Harvard psychiatrist Robert Lifton, who has studied Nazi doctors.
"The truth is that we all have the possibility for genocidal behavior."


Amen on the "but for the Grace of God".

OBrenda:
This is the evil that men do when they don't understand we are all one!   :'(

Universal Salvation cripples the christian thinking that others are worthless to God!

Colossians 3:11
In him there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free person. Instead, the Messiah is all and in all.  Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.  Be tolerant of one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also should forgive.

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Galatians 3:28
Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.
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Stevernator:
"We all have the possibility for genocidal behavior," said Harvard psychiatrist Robert Lifton.

That quote is amazing and lines up with scripture I believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

There was a psychologist who did an experiment where he would order the human subject to press a button to shock a participant who said the wrong answers. While no one was really shocked, the researcher convinced the subject pressing the buttons that someone was being shocked from the button presses. So the person would hear a noise and think he/she was shocking someone. The researcher thought that the subject would refuse to press the button at a certain voltage. He was surprised to find out that many of them would keep pressing to a very high level that he thought only psychopaths would go to. It showed the willingness of people to compromise their morals in order to obey authorities.


--- Quote ---"Milgram summarized the experiment in his 1974 article, "The Perils of Obedience", writing:

The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.[4]"
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