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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (229425)8/15/2013 9:43:28 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (3) of 542600
 
Not to quarrel over the facts of both historical and present sectarian strife (a lot of which preceded the era of weapons of mass destruction which I date to 1945), but the countries engaged in sectarian wars now have the luxury of preceding without WMD's (thankfully), and the countries that have them are more or less ethically constrained not to be the first users of such--no? Some of that ethical background is derived from their cultural history with religion.
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I do acknowledge the doctrine of MAD surely plays a part in the thinking here also.

But if one thinks of the teachings of Jesus in terms of the loving of thy neighbor and turning the other cheek; that is truly a revolutionary concept in terms of human biological evolvement. Then if one thinks about how rapidly Christianity colonized the known Mediterranean world, almost like a biological virus, then one maybe can leap to the fact that ideas generated by the human brain have the power to take on a life that has in it the seed of human preservation--in a big picture sense.

Certainly we consider ourselves more "humane" than in the past. Our consciousness and the concepts of "right" and "wrong" have evolved; and have become more nuanced and pronounced at the same time that our capacity to kill each other has increased, and I think this has a basis in the humane concepts present in contemporary religious thought.
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