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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 3877770" data-attributes="member: 5445">It's more than understandable, although I thought I transitioned, I didn't, so no harm, nor foul.I'll agreed that it is generally hard to discuss real world religions without issues rising up. I will also agree that orthodox Christianity is not dualistic, at least intentionally dualistic. It also doesn't encourage dualism, i.e. acceptance of those who worship evil.Now, see, I don't feel that the concepts of what is goodly and the concepts of what is evil, nor law or chaos, are dependent on any religion and its framework to exist, be it mono-, poly-, or pantheistic.In fact, I think good and evil, as well as law and chaos, are the framework upon which any concepts, religiously, of good or evil are built.I think they are basic elements, be it in the real world or fantasy, that make up the universe, just as magic is, or gravity is in the real world.They are basic, universal concepts that are consistent in a monotheistic world, or polytheistic.Killing an innocent, even if an evil religion, disguised under the image of a good religion, says it is a good act.Oh, it can have a separate existence, but the two are sides of the same coin. Basic physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If there is good in the universe then there must be evil, if only one or the other exists then it is stasis and thus a lifeless void.Life is about difference, in fact life happens in the space between differences meeting, adapting, and moving on to new differences. While large groups may generally agree on something, there are splinter groups within those groups who have their own ideas and concepts, too.*shrugs*I'm sure we'll just have to agree to disagree, at some point, as I think our fundamental ideas and concepts will differ.I think the idea of either good, or evil, being an illusion and either good, or evil, will remain once the other is abolished is more an act of rationalization and justification than solid understanding.</blockquote>

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