(January 5, 2016 at 10:58 am)abaris Wrote:(January 5, 2016 at 10:43 am)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: War violence is always organized by those who believe they are leading a fundamentally better people on account of religious or ideological differences - or, as is most often the truth, by those who would have their followers think so.
Which wasn't always about religion. And which, presently is only religious on the surface. Not scratching the surface for the underlying political reasons is the best recipe for failure.
Religion is just one tool to motivate the masses to throw their lives away. It's not the only one, not by a long stretch.
I edited that last clause after thinking about it, and before I saw this. Essentially, what I was trying to say is the same, except the point is that religion is the invention of the greedy, for use by the greedy, and which invariably gains its power through the motivation of the greedy. It was nothing if not profitable for he who built the first pile of stones, and then managed to convince others that it had chosen him to deliver its message.
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