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Reply #28: I NEVER agree with sangh0
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Djinn
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Wed Jun-02-04 06:08 PM
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28. I NEVER agree with sangh0 |
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ever ever ever BUT the point that Mao (and Stalin amaongst others) slaughtered millions does illustrate that power and the desire to attain or keep it has more to do with most war/violence than religion.
Even in those conflicts in which the cause is ostensibly religion it's really power - take the Ireland/Northern Ireland conflict - while on a simplictic level it was sectarian fighting between Catholics and Protestants, it had it's seeds in the fact that the Protestants had all the political/social and economic power, anayone that thinks all the IRA (and now the offshoots) and the Orangemen were devout religious followers is being blinded to the real issues.
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