Religion and Individualism

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by inked

Since this a Tolkien forum, I oppose the LoTR to Hesse. Draw your own conclusions, but "good and evil have not changed". Morality is not relativistic nor societal, it overarchs societies. Else, why oppose Sauron?

Evil is different than morality though. Look at how many people in europe who threwout morality for the holocaust. If that isn't an example of societal morality - then I don't know what is. Millions and millions of Europeans during world war II saw nothing wrong with their neighbors being carted off, shot in the street or with them themselves turning in the "the dirty jew". And it wasn't just isolated to Germany. Anne Frank was in the Netherlands hiding out when her family was turned in.