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Originally Posted by Doug
So what's wrong in the world today is no different than a thousand years ago; religion has always been a power base of a few to control a mostly illiterate majority only today we call ourselves enlightened and the rest of the worlds religions has some variation of evil. Only Man is evil towards other men and usually its only a few; today it's within the hand of politics; before that in the hands of Kings; before that Priests and before that tribal leaders and mystics. Power as never been in the hands of the people and it never will.
All we can do is try and respect others and take only those elements of religion or beliefs that work for us and show no offence to those that don't. I am as happy to dance around a tree naked has I am to sit in a Church. People who seek to hurt others will only suffer themselves in time; it's wrote throughout our history
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My sentiments entirely.
I have looked back at the first post in this thread and nowhere in that post is religion mention, or even alluded to.
Somehow, religion crept in and subverted the thread.
This is among people who 'know' one another through the common bond of the forum....so you can see how easy it is that in the name of religion(one or many - it really doesn't matter) to create unease, conflict and subsequently war.