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DeSoya, I strongly disagree regarding religion and war. War is an example of the failure of religion. It is worthless looking at people using a cause for their own ends. You have to look at how closely a movement matches the teachings it supposedly follows.
If I called myself a Russian would you believe me? It's pretty naive to presume people to be genuine Buddhists or Christians simply because they pay lip service. By their fruits you shall know them.
Secondly, even the most ardent religious person is HUMAN, and prone to failure and succumbing to the said greed and fear. Again, where conflict involving these passions arise, it is a failure on the individuals part to maintain their chosen path however momentarily that may be.
That is not the religions fault, but the humans.
As I already posted, do we blame scientific discoveries for nuclear warfare, or the humans that misused the knowledge.
Again, this has all been said before. It's a good idea to read over posts before rehashing old arguments. It's the quickest way to getting a thread closed.
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