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Originally Posted by Cheese
You are 100% correct Azure...FAITH is religion. There is nothing else. I have never argued against that. I too have Faith...in mankind.
My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all. I am not even claiming that religion is the only label by which we identify the victims of our prejudice. There's also skin color, language, and social class. But often, as in Northern Ireland, these don't apply and religion is the only divisive label around. Even when it is not alone, religion is nearly always an incendiary ingredient in the mix as well.
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You say you have faith in mankind. So you must have faith in the evil part of mankind as well where you have a guy walk into Dawson College and shoot a bunch of people. Or how about the Columbine high school shootings in 1999? What about Paul Bernardo? These aren't wars but they are certainly some of the acts of evil that comes from mankind. Not where I would want to place my faith, but if you want to that is your choice.