Re: Solid Ground

hagen wrote:
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Religious wars are terrible, Holocaust was terrible, inquisitions and
burnings are terrible
(allthough there is a Paradise,- and there is a sunny day after a
nights mare), but I am not seeking for reasons against religions or
God.
Religious battles or rather promotions between the main- religions are
carried out all the time. We experienced that in the 60ties:
Psychology, Freudianism (Jewish origin?). Transcendental meditation
vegetarians (Hinduism), astrology with its reminiscences of Indian
caste-systems (I am not a fish, a virgin, a unicorn. I am a human
being!).Etc. When Christianity is weakened, it is by traditon
challenged by muhamedanism. It always was.
Yes I feel, that the Stone age was a grusome era. If not deseases,
what else hold them down from social developement for so many
thousands of years? Something did.

The monotheist religions invented religious wars, period. There were none before they came along. And just to show you I am not blaming Christians or Jews, Islam was the first explicitly monotheist religion.

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there at the time. If Bush awaits the verdict of history he can read it
today.
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