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Why do "religions" often lead to violence?

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Why do "religions" often lead to violence?
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RE: Why do "religions" often lead to violence?
January 27, 2013 at 6:11 pm (This post was last modified: January 27, 2013 at 6:14 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 27, 2013 at 5:24 pm)RichardP Wrote: It seems that religion is at the heart of most of the large scale violence and vigilantism around the world. Why? The rules that the religions profess seem to be pretty good. Take the Ten Commandments as an example:

Blah, blah.

I don't think religion is "at the heart" of "most" large scale violence. For example, religion is IHMO incidental to Napoleonic War, American Civil War, Franco-Prussian War, Russo-Japanese war, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cambodean Pol Pot holocaust, the Hutu-Tutsi genocide.

Religion in many cases become involved in large scale violence only as a incidental trait of the participants of the violence, ie Religionist group A fought religionist group B not because religions A and B. Rather group A fought group B and in the endeavor each enlisted their respective religions.
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Why do "religions" often lead to violence?

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Why do "religions" often lead to violence? - by RichardP - January 27, 2013 at 5:24 pm
RE: Why do "religions" often lead to violence? - by Anomalocaris - January 27, 2013 at 6:11 pm
RE: Why do "religions" often lead to violence? - by RichardP - January 27, 2013 at 6:39 pm
RE: Why do "religions" often lead to violence? - by Brian37 - January 27, 2013 at 6:19 pm
RE: Why do "religions" often lead to violence? - by RichardP - January 27, 2013 at 7:54 pm
RE: Why do "religions" often lead to violence? - by catfish - January 27, 2013 at 10:49 pm

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