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| Topic | "Maybe it's not to late to learn how to love and forget how to hate" |
| darkknight109 08/01/19 12:22:32 PM #18: | kind9 posted... So conflicting ideologies may not be the source of hatred and intolerance, but they are most definitely a cause. Especially theistic, dogmatic religions that literally state, "this is the way and all others are false." Numbers don't gel with your argument. Taking a look at the two largest religions,there's about 2.2 billion Christians in the world and 1.8 billion Muslims. Collectively they make up over half the world's population. If even a tenth of those people were the dogmatic, "I will literally kill you for not believing what I do" sort that you're claiming religion fosters they would constitute an army greater than any that has ever been assembled in the history of the world and their resultant wars with one another, and with the rest of the planet, would put both World Wars to shame in terms of impact and death tolls. PO said it best - religions, historically, were an excuse for a lot of conflicts, but they've seldom been the cause. Had religion never been a thing, the wars still would have happened, just for a different reason. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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