Religion is not the only motivation for slaughter.

Post #174,902

9/18/04 2:22:01 AM

But, it's right up there. Let's think about some recent events.

The "Chosen People" (and who is superior to that?) are slaughtering Palestinian Arabs every chance they get (and vice versa). Exclude their faith and these people are otherwise indistinguishable.

The "troubles" of Northern Ireland. Prey tell what is the difference between the two sides.

The Indian Hindu slaughter of Indian Muslims and vice versa. And, of course, the perpetual fighting between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.

The Indonesian Muslim slaughter of East Timor Christians.

Genocide of Darfur blacks by Sudanese Arabs.

God is on our side!

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Post #174,925

by imric

9/18/04 8:58:00 AM

And, of course

None of these people would find other reasons to slaughter one another if religion were eliminated, right?

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Post #174,940

by Arkadiy

9/18/04 12:39:40 PM

The "chosen people" do have many more

opportunities than they actually use to "slaughter" Palestinians. They miss awful lot of them, for the bloodthirsty murderers that they are. Palestinians, on the other hand, don't miss a single one offered to them, such good fighters.

As for difference between Irish and English - I think it's more about one side being poor and conquered. I won't be surprized if the religious difference is the consequence of the older hatred.

Hindu and Muslims have been at each other throats since the time of Muslim conquest of India. No one can find heads and tails of that oen any more, but it started as conquest, even if it had some religious mutterings as well.

Don't know much about Indonesia.

Darfur is another complex shithole with history. Thenatives rose up first, and started to fight for independence. What we see is a pushback from Khartoum, magnified to genocidal proportions. All this shit has nothing to do with religion, but rather with power and land pocession.

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