Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00067)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" <kpauljohnson@y...> 
wrote:
> It takes a certain amount of honesty to admit that what one is 
> feeling is personal discomfort based on fear rather than
> righteous indignation based on justice.

But what if they are the same thing (i.e., one is never anything but 
a rationalization of the other.) I am reminded of Mark Twain's 
statement that gratitude and treachery are two forms of the same 
thing. When I first read that I thought he was being funny.

Years later I am not so sure.