Re: poptarts with a twist of lennon

[Dan Temmesfeld <dtemm at yahoo_com>]

"Peter T. Chattaway" wrote:
>> agreed.  while it's nice that people have
>> differing and strong convictions about all things
>> spiritual, forcing any one's belief on another one
>> is the crux of too much misery in this world.
> 
> And you don't have to have beliefs *in favour of*
> things spiritual in order to cause too much misery
> -- the atheist regimes of the world have certainly
> proved that.

true.  that's inline with what i said.
 
>> it's generally what's caused just about every war.
> 
> I haven't surveyed all the wars in the history of
> our planet, but I think I would place economics
> over religion, personally.

i'd say that economics and religion are about tied.

> My hunch is religion didn't become a primary cause
> for warfare until the rise of evangelistic religions
> like Christianity...

the children of Israel conquered many nations because
God told them to do so.  it's all over the O.T.

Dan


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