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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I disagree. History, including recent, is peppered with religious wars, violence, genocide. In England, it has been politically motivated to keep one Christian sect or another in power. In the Middle East, the ISIS sect has more than demonstrated the state of folly we have reached as a species.
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Could you cite some examples please, with an indication of the magnitude of suffering caused. If you do, I’ll return the favour with a list of conflicts with no religious motive, and which I’m grimly confident will be longer and bloodier.
I’m sorry but I’m an old lag when it comes to the “religion causes war” fallacy. The truth is, humans cause war, in pursuit of resources and power, using whatever philosophical justification is closest at hand at the time.
Incidentally, ISIS is a zit on the arse of humanity. The suffering they cause is magnified by the fact that it is contemporary. In comparison with almost any other coherent philosophy, past or present, they’re barely out of the nursery.