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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Hip Priest again.
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.  |
what you have stated are not opinions but historical facts, which i would not argue with. however your pretension that religion is somehow separate from these endeavours and doesn't actively encourage them is totally disingenuous. you can play the game of 'but that's not REAL religion' all you want but it's simply dishonest. you can't disentangle the economic and the political from the religious. in fact it strikes me that doing so reduces religion to nothing more than a total impotent individualistic lifestyle accessory. which you probably don't have a problem with.
your supposed innocent space wherein true, inherently peaceful and benevolent religion is practiced is a total sham. you know this but it doesn't fit into your frankly self aggrandizing preaching of an archaic and increasingly obsolete primitive fantasy.
also, i don't disagree with anything hip priest said.