By reciprocating with religious fervor, we are engaging the radicals in their religious war making
this a war over religion, not politics.
HG, We might have went to
war over religion years ago but I doubt this is the case today.
Quit putting us in
wars over religion... we have enough problems on this planet to deal with as a species... real problems that will take all of us, working TOGETHER, to solve.
It will take another world
war over religion to change our thinking!
leaders won't go to
war over religion, but they will propagandize an economic war via religion.
Come on Bloomberg, Christians, Muslims, and Jews have fought
wars over their religions.
History tells us that Britain, France, Germany and Italy had for centuries waged
wars over religion, territory and power.»
The film tells the story of young refugees from Sudan caught in the middle of a civil
war over religion and resources in the late 1980s.
Not exact matches
Neither the less, these
wars were not fought
over religion.
and since the beggining of mankind, however that happened... «
religion» has accompished one and only one thing it has celebrated our differences, divided mankind, and caused
wars over and
over again instead of doing what this world needs us all to do... celebrate our similarities.
I wonder what would happen
over there if the world's people were to finally see the truth and realize that
religion is being used to delude them into thinking world
wars are the way of life — something that has to happen in order for... their glorious ascension into heaven or hell --(depending on who's side — re:
religion — god — whatever — you are on).
The details of law and the vital debates
over the personhood of the fetus mattered far less than the success of a continuing ideological
war to liberate women from male domination, orthodox
religion, and oppressive notions of traditional sexual morality.
There is only ONE MESSAGE on earth now that can definitely end the
war and all kind of bloody feuds and conflicts within and / or between all
Religions and Sects; and here it is for all Peace Loving and Truth Seeking intelligent Humans all
over the world now:
Mudslinging debate
over what caused each
war is a never - ending argument, but
religions including yours have played a big part even in many of the recent ones, WWII and the ongoing conflicts in the ME included
The effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine,
wars in the Middle East because of
religion and killings in big cities and small towns all
over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.
There have been plenty of
wars fought
over a wide range of reasons, not all
wars are
over religion, when are you athiests going to get off of your high horse and accept the fact that everyone, religious and non religious cause violence at some time.
If a lack of
religion were the problem, then centuries of Christian rule leading up to that event wouldn't have yielded
over a hundred million dead in
wars of conquest and dogma, genocidal campaigns, witch - hunts, and death camps.
I'm agnostic / atheist but I'd just like to say that the ignorance of other atheists is embarrassing — just to clear something up the cause of most
wars is not
religion, certainly not
over the past 100 years.
Of course these laws can be grasped only by intuitive faith — which is why ecology has become a
religion, and why the battle
over mundane issues like dams or highways is at bottom a holy
war.
Tthe effects of prejudice and racism are all around — constant fighting in Israel and Palestine,
wars in the Middle East because of
religion and killings in big cities and small towns all
over the world because of the color of someone's skin or sexual orientation.
= > nonsense as atheism has resulted in the deaths of
over 50 million in the last century alone, and it has been shown that «
religion» (that's all
religions) have only been responsible for 7 % of ALL
wars to date (which would mean approximately 25 million in the past 2000 years)
Going to
war over belief is a phenomenon of the Abrahamic
religions (Jewish, Christian, Muslim and their off shoots).
More
wars have been fought
over religion than
over anything else.
The seventeenth century would surely count as the height of «religious certitude» in Europe:
Wars were fought
over religion ¯ or at least
over the ecclesiastical form
religion took in different national contexts.
results of what islam is capable of has been seen everywhere in the world... results can be seen all
over the world... Muslims have declared
war against almost every other
religion..
Islam is
religion of peace with who wants peace but not for those who look for
war against it... Besides quoting «A force to be feared» this what would the Israelies say worrying from reactions after 30 years of suppression by this party and president ruling the country... another fear that they will spread their ideology all
over Arabia..
Not any other main
religion in ths century promote
war except ISLAM and more your number are over but even take note that the great percentage of this deads are ISLAMIC killing ISAmic that prove that ISLAM = War and jihad = d
war except ISLAM and more your number are
over but even take note that the great percentage of this deads are ISLAMIC killing ISAmic that prove that ISLAM =
War and jihad = d
War and jihad = dead
or a
war aginst invaders... if smeone enters ur home and starts taking
over it u'll try and get them out by any means possible... Jihad is a
war fought if ur country is invaded by outside forces... which is a right for any human being... one again before passing judgement yuou might want to get ur facts straight... don't listen to what u're told... God has given u a brain... use it... study a
religion..
Over the course of recorded history more
wars and killings have been done in the name
religion than for any other reason.
But when the
religion boom of the post — World
War II years was
over, it could no longer be ignored.
Almost every
war was started
over religion, remember how the catholic church burned people at the stake by the tens of thousands.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle
over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural
war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all
over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt
over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil
war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between
religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
Russia was not going to go to
war with America
over religion.
The point is this:
Over time, and especially after the
Wars of
Religion and the French Revolution, the «confessional state» — a state committed to advancing the true Catholic
religion and suppressing religious error — became the standard Catholic model for government.
But after World
War II, the Court began to insert itself into what James Madison called the «internal» objects of state governments, particularly the culture - forming institutions, including education,
religion, marriage, and government's domestic control
over matters of life and death.
Organized
religion is the root of most evils today: Abuse of children and women,
wars over religious territories, terrorists with radical religious beliefs, denial of a women's right to choose, denial of gay rights, oppression of differing cultures, corruption in churches, synagogues, mosques, etc..
Although firmly rooted in simple peasant cooking, the foods eaten in the Balkans reflect a wide variety of influences
over a long period of time: geography and history, ethnicity and
religion,
wars and invasions, and new ingredients brought from other parts of the world,...
Although firmly rooted in simple peasant cooking, the foods eaten in the Balkans reflect a wide variety of influences
over a long period of time: geography and history, ethnicity and
religion,
wars and invasions, and new ingredients brought from other parts of the world, especially spices from the East and crops from the West.
British Humanist Association accuses attorney general of trying to turn debate
over faith into «
war of words about
religion»
Written in 1944 during a lull in the 40 - year - old's World
War II service, the story takes place
over the previous two decades and considers issues of class,
religion, and the heart.
You would think
over centuries of
war based on
religion, we would have learned something by now.
To understand how this transformation occurred, take a brief trip back into the history of the Middle East, where it all began.Go back to the origins of humankind, where two rivers formed the Fertile Crescent and civilization sprouted.Watch the Abrahamic
Religions bud in the Levant along the eastern Mediterranean Sea and develop into Judaism and Christianity.Witness the steady march of empires hold sway
over Middle Eastern trade, resources,
religion and culture for millennia.Visit the sacred cities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy
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Like past God of
War games, it takes players on a Cliff's Notes tour of an ancient
religion, with Norse mythology taking
over this time for the Greek pantheon of its predecessors.
An Essex - born intellectual with a lugubrious laugh, Wallinger has
over the years taken Jesus, Tommy Cooper, the 1966 World Cup, the first world
war, racing, poetry, passion and unseemly goings - on inside a pantomime horse as his subjects, in his examinations of Britishness and national identity, wealth and breeding,
religion and politics.
Of course, no one exists in a «vacuum» and further research took me back further to the UK and their civil
wars over «
religion» which then spawned the colonisation of the Americas and how that «society» then developed
over centuries.
«freedom of choice, the individual takes all, user pays, the darwinian survival of the fittest, the fundamentalism of
religion, the oppression of labour to complete flexibility, the crude elevation of the entrepreneur beyond the ethics of their behaviour, the mocking of the role of the state in any service, the quest for ever lower taxes and the shrinkage of government, the failure to admit privatisation disasters, the ignoring of education and health needs for the majority, the failure to pursue greater equality for women, the worship of wealth for some at the expense of wellbeing for many, freedom to carry guns, deny climate change, the penchant for
war and national might
over peace time government services, and finally the deeply flawed assumption that competition prevails in any market (and every market) if you just stand back and watch it»