Here is a newspaper account of torture practiced in modern concentration camps
The victim is bound to a metal chair. Electric shocks are then administered in increasing intensity, until the victim confesses.
The torturer cups his hand and slaps the victim on the ear repeatedly till the eardrum breaks.
A prisoner is strapped to a dentist's chair. The the dentist drills till he strikes a nerve. The drilling goes on till the victim agrees to cooperate.
People are not naturally cruel. They become creel when they are unhappy - or when they succumb to an ideology.
If religious people had always followed the instinct of their heart rather than the logic of their religion we would have been spared the sight of heretics burning at stakes, widows walking into funeral pyres, and million of innocent people slaughtered in wars that are waged in the name of God.
Anthony de Mello
The victim is bound to a metal chair. Electric shocks are then administered in increasing intensity, until the victim confesses.
The torturer cups his hand and slaps the victim on the ear repeatedly till the eardrum breaks.
A prisoner is strapped to a dentist's chair. The the dentist drills till he strikes a nerve. The drilling goes on till the victim agrees to cooperate.
People are not naturally cruel. They become creel when they are unhappy - or when they succumb to an ideology.
If religious people had always followed the instinct of their heart rather than the logic of their religion we would have been spared the sight of heretics burning at stakes, widows walking into funeral pyres, and million of innocent people slaughtered in wars that are waged in the name of God.
Anthony de Mello
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