cause is like killing all humanity, according to 5:32. And further, in 25:68-69, killing innocents is the worst of all sins. So just when should we employ the merciful or forgiving behaviors that the Bible and Koran demand?â
ââRay, you know that the Catholics have used the same rationalizations as the Islamic terrorists. The Christian rationalization for killing both good Catholics and potentially evil inhabitants of a town was justified by the papal legate Arnaud when he said âKill them all, for God knows His
own.â This justified the killing of over 20,000 men, women and children in the French city of Beziers on July 22, 1209 in a âcrusadeâ authorized by the pope.â
ââWe could go on all day with examples of rationalizations and lies, but there are several other psychological defense mechanisms that people use to distort reality. For example, âreaction formationâ means that the person says or acts in a manner exactly the opposite of what is felt. A person may be nice to another while actually disliking that person. âIdealizationâ occurs when a person thinks too highly of another. Believing that a mother or child, husband or wife, will take care of you forever because they are perfect and they will love you forever. The âmadonna-prostituteâ syndrome is an example of a neurosis in which a man cannot make love with his wife because he idealizes her like his mother. There are only good girls and bad girls, and you canât have sex with good girls âDenigrationâ is just the opposite of idealization. Here a person sees another as bad when it is not the case. A parent may be blamed for a childâs failure. The child sees the parent as responsible for everything that has gone wrong in life.â
ATONING FOR REALITY
âAtoning for reality is another major type of withdrawing from reality. In this major
ââRay, you know that the Catholics have used the same rationalizations as the Islamic terrorists. The Christian rationalization for killing both good Catholics and potentially evil inhabitants of a town was justified by the papal legate Arnaud when he said âKill them all, for God knows His
own.â This justified the killing of over 20,000 men, women and children in the French city of Beziers on July 22, 1209 in a âcrusadeâ authorized by the pope.â
ââWe could go on all day with examples of rationalizations and lies, but there are several other psychological defense mechanisms that people use to distort reality. For example, âreaction formationâ means that the person says or acts in a manner exactly the opposite of what is felt. A person may be nice to another while actually disliking that person. âIdealizationâ occurs when a person thinks too highly of another. Believing that a mother or child, husband or wife, will take care of you forever because they are perfect and they will love you forever. The âmadonna-prostituteâ syndrome is an example of a neurosis in which a man cannot make love with his wife because he idealizes her like his mother. There are only good girls and bad girls, and you canât have sex with good girls âDenigrationâ is just the opposite of idealization. Here a person sees another as bad when it is not the case. A parent may be blamed for a childâs failure. The child sees the parent as responsible for everything that has gone wrong in life.â
ATONING FOR REALITY
âAtoning for reality is another major type of withdrawing from reality. In this major