You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Hip Priest again.
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Originally Posted by dead_battery
the sheer dishonesty of suchfriends response that those murderers and extremists 'aren't REALLY religious' is an absolute embarrassment. it's on the same level as saying "those nazis that did the war and gas chambers weren't REAL nazis" or "those stalinist purge and holodomor guys weren't REALLY communist".
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Whatever you say. Nazism was a
political ideology which was actually veiled in esoteric pagan religious imagery, all I implied was that Al-Qaeda is the same kind of thing whereas Rob's assertion was that religion is the primary or sole motivation. I beg to differ. You can't negate political (power) and economic (money) influences behind ALL human behavior, especially that which is radical or violent.
Even the Crusades were largely a
geopolitical and financial matter, hence why on the Third Crusade they skipped Jerusalem and the Muslims altogether and instead sacked their political rival, Byzantium. What was the Inquisition? A political response and retaliation to the political and economic threat of Protestantism. Those are my opinions. You don't have to rudely call me
a liar or disingenuous simply because
you disagree with my analysis.
