To: Krowbar who wrote (63811 ) 11/22/1999 8:35:00 AM From: greenspirit Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Del, res- <<Nice try Michael, but facts are getting in the way of your perceived view of the world. Again, I will not spend time on this. If you search hard enough you can find people who agree with you, and thus make you feel you are right. >>>lust for power . Which any objective person looking at history could easily conclude. Beyond the borders of North America, the bloodiest, most ambitious conquerors in human history accomplished their deadly work with little reference to religious priorities. Pure lust for power, rather than some sense of holy mission, drove Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar (and his Roman successors), Attila, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. None of these tyrants made serous attempts to impose their faith on victim nations-and each of them, to a greater or lesser extent, faced troubled relations with the religious authorities in their own societies. The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict. The greatest and costliest struggles of the uniquely blood-soaked hundred year epic just now concluding -World War I, World War II, the many "hot" conflicts of the Cold War-could scarcely be defined as religious disputes. Even Hitler's targeting of the Jews for annihilation bore little connection to faith-based concerns or hatreds.
