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To: Ilaine who wrote (69592)12/31/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
Have to disagree- all those things were "religions" of a kind- the carnage could never have been accomplished had not the populace bought into the myth (of Mao, of Lenin, of Stalin, of the Ayahtolah, of WHOEVER)- people who desire power can't accomplish much without lots and lots of minions- and to get minions you must get people to BELIEVE, and an easy way to get people to BELIEVE is to teach them to hate- most people love to hate, maybe even ALL people- but the truly truly evil people don't recognize it as hate even when they act on it.

A rational person can hate without killing. A zealot has a hard time with that. All the examples you mention are examples of zealotry run amuck.



To: Ilaine who wrote (69592)12/31/1999 2:34:00 PM
From: Rambi  Respond to of 108807
 
Thanks, Cobe, That makes absolute sense to me, that religion is just one of the many "excuses" to attempt to dominate. In and of itself, religion should not be destructive, but it is often used that way- from the larger persecutions of the "other", to the daily small ostracisms and cruelties on an individual scale. The worst offenses may not have been motivated by religion, but that ANY are is sad. (I think we've differentiated before between religion and faith.)


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