Instapundit's posting of a reader's email invites a storm of correction on Hindu theology and the principle of "creative destruction." I've never accepted that term as being anything other than sophistry and self-justification. Sure, some destruction can get things out of the way for creation of better things, but the creation still comes after the destruction, and is not a guarunteed thing. The one is not the other.
Everybody who wants to destroy something believes their act to be full of righteousness; only nihilists believe otherwise. Many may even be sincere, and wish to create after they destroy, and destroy with that intention in mind. But destruction and creation remain two seperate acts, and how history judges them is dependent on how careful they are in destroying, and whether they get that chance to build again.
Incidentally, someone should let Glenn (or his reader) know that Brahma is the Hindu god of Creation, not Vishnu.
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