The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47287   Message #706023
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-May-02 - 01:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: PEACE in the Middle East (3)
Subject: RE: BS: PEACE in the Middle East (3)
Manicheanism colloquially (in places where it is used colloquially, which may not be all that many) means seeing things in stark black and white - which is not how the world is.

The basic historic Manichean doctrine is that there is a principle of good (call it God) and a principle of evil (call it the Devil), and they are equal and equally eternal. But it's not got all that much to do with the way the term tends to be used.