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Originally Posted by picapo
If there were no organised religion then this wouldn't be happening!!!
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I'm sure that the millions of factions of various forms of theism that would exist in the place of 'organised religion' would have found plenty of things to argue about, and even more to get violent about.
The religion is not to blame, it is the men(/women) that abuse their positions of authority by corrupting the ideals of the religions.
Fundamentally Christians, Jews and Muslims should be more like brethren, rather than 'opponents'. Their religions share so much history and so many of the ideals that promote peaceful co-existence. Yet, for some reason, there is a schism between them that threatens everyone.
While there are plenty of theological differences between Jews and Christians, they have found a way to set those aside and to coexist (relatively) peacefully for quite a long time now.
At the same time, Muslims seem to have moved further and further away from the common ground they could occupy with the 'people of the book'.
In fact, if they were as vehement about following the Koran's directions in this respect as they are in their fervour for following the Hadith (i.e. NOT a direction from the Koran) about imagery, we'd all be a lot better off - including Muslims.