On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, David Johnston wrote:

What I wonder is how founded in the original is this whole 
"purification" on a planetary scale business.

It's in the manga, but not the anime.

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas         
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New CS Lewis Quote :)
"This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn.  We must play.
but our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest
kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each
other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.  And out
charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in
spite of which we love the sinner--no mere tolerance or indulgence which
parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."
--The Weight of Glory