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Originally Posted by Azure
Good point Cheese. Stalin by no means used the true form of communism, much like China hasn't ever been close in past history. Both countries try to force religion upon others using violence, propoganda and all that junk.
And it usually revolves around one specific religion. I'm religious(a bit) and I absolutely agree that religion is the root of all evil. How many people throughout history have used it to serve their murderous agenda?
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Historically Christendom has executed its wrath on millions of people. Any religion, country or people that didnt accept its promotion were at times brutally murdered.
Has it changed much? With people like Pat Robertson and his ilk leading large swaths of right wing whackos is the USA far behind Islam?
Christians did not shy away from killing their own religious brethern when even minor theological differences arose. For them, perhaps no differences were truly minor - all doctrines were a part of the True Path to heaven, and deviation on any point challenged the authority of the church and the community. It was a rare person who dared to stand up and make independent decisions about religious belief, made all the more rare by the fact that they were massacred as fast as possible.