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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I'm going to guess you've never read Deuteronomy.
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Yeah, and Deuteronomy and other crazy things in the Bible make people do crazy things.
ANYWAY, I can see where y'all are coming from with the "if it wasn't religion, it'd be something else" idea, but the thing is, it is religion. They say it is. It ain't something else.
Sure, they may be fanatics because they are poor or uneducated or oppressed, but they wouldn't carry off some of this crazy stuff (like blowing themselves up) without some religious motivation.
You'd have a hell of a time (no pun intended) convincing someone to do this if you didn't give them some incentive that after they are "gone" they'll get some sort of reward.
Who ever heard of an atheist suicide bomber?