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Actually, his work is a primer in what can happen when you let yourself get too involved in any cause, to the point where you think that you are the only one that is right and become completely intolerant and blind to any other viewpoint.
Christianity and the other world religions may pay lip service to the tenets of tolerance and love, but let's not forget that, until the modern age when nationalism largely supplanted religion as the motivating political force, virtually all of the world's wars and conflicts were precipitated by religions.
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\"You see things; and you say \'Why?\' But I dream things that never were; and I say \'Why not?\'\"<br />-George Bernard Shaw<br /><br />\"Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.\"<br />-Napoleon Bonaparte
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