24063: Kathleen (reply)Morse's question: can a person do bad and good, and how is this person judged finally? (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Kathleen <kathleenmb@adelphia.net>

    People are inconveniently gray, but the most egregious example, aside
from the family man/dog loving Nazi leaders, is unquestionably (to me)
Gilles de Rais.  13th century nobleman and military leader who many times
> saved the life of St. Joan of Arc, and who also killed more than four
> hundred children in sadistic sexual rituals. "A prince of evil, who fought
> with devotion and immense bravery at the right hand of a saint....What
> precisely does one do with such a man? Perhaps every century or so he's
> given a day off from eternal torment." Katzenbach, John, STATE OF MIND, pp
> 200-201.
    I think we cause ourselves needless anguish and tortuous justifying when
we insist someone be totally good or bad.  Kathleen