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What do you respond to this?
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RE: What do you respond to this?
October 3, 2015 at 5:41 am
Quote:any religion well studied will lead you to peace

Aside from being dead wrong on the face of it, this is a very provincial attitude to take. A deep and serious study of Mesoamerican religions, for example, will lead you to the inescapable conclusion that human sacrifice is necessary and just. Several Celtic religions practiced head hunting, and there are scads of world religions where warring on your neighbours wasn't a misinterpretation of the religion, but part and parcel of it. Pretty tough to support the claim then that, studying religion leads one to 'peace'.

It is important to remember that there are more religions in the world than the Abrahamic ones.

Boru
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What do you respond to this? - by marianomanto - October 2, 2015 at 7:57 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by houseofcantor - October 2, 2015 at 8:00 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Neo-Scholastic - October 2, 2015 at 8:32 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by abaris - October 2, 2015 at 8:42 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Spooky - October 2, 2015 at 8:48 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Brian37 - October 2, 2015 at 9:00 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by robvalue - October 2, 2015 at 9:19 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Fidel_Castronaut - October 2, 2015 at 9:26 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Faith No More - October 2, 2015 at 9:53 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Chad32 - October 2, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by TheRealJoeFish - October 2, 2015 at 9:47 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Iroscato - October 2, 2015 at 1:19 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Minimalist - October 2, 2015 at 1:22 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by drfuzzy - October 2, 2015 at 2:01 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by brewer - October 2, 2015 at 3:11 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Thumpalumpacus - October 2, 2015 at 3:25 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by brewer - October 2, 2015 at 9:42 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Simon Moon - October 2, 2015 at 3:33 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by houseofcantor - October 2, 2015 at 4:11 pm
What do you respond to this? - by KUSA - October 2, 2015 at 3:35 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by marianomanto - October 2, 2015 at 6:09 pm
RE: What do you respond to this? - by robvalue - October 3, 2015 at 3:16 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 3, 2015 at 3:26 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by Bob Kelso - October 3, 2015 at 4:30 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by robvalue - October 3, 2015 at 4:33 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by paulpablo - October 3, 2015 at 5:26 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 3, 2015 at 5:41 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by robvalue - October 3, 2015 at 6:32 am
RE: What do you respond to this? - by ignoramus - October 3, 2015 at 7:23 am

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