Originally Posted By: Dan Silverman
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For the record the crimes you list are not limited to religious types. Burning and bombing, senseless killings? They have ever been part of the human tapestry. They have been done in the name of racial superiority, political ideologies, for land, water, trade routes and power. You seek to paint religion as the source of all of this evil but that is a false view. I am sure at least as many crimes have been committed against religious people by intolerant groups and individuals, as by them.


You might want to take a look at your list again. Even when the evils were committed for racial superiority, political ideologies, land, water, trade routes and power, the typical situation has religion behind them. Whether it was the Crusades, the expansion of the Muslim world, the conquest of the New World and any other number of wars that were fought, the VAST majority of them have religion as a cause or reason within them. Even if the people that fought them were not religions, per se, they often used religion as their excuse to get the job done.


Even today, war is still backed by religious issues. Look at the Middle East. Israel has been fought over for millenia and it is still going on. Muslim extremists disrupt American/Iraqi attempts to bring democracy and security to Iraq in the name of Allah. And on ourside many people, albiet ignorant people, blame the entire Muslim religion for acts of war and terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere.

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