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To: Moominoid who wrote (23803)	10/4/2002 8:27:49 AM
From: mcg404	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<Blaming violence on religion is like blaming the forest fire on the tree...Religion is just a marker that ethnic groups use to define themselves...rarely the actual cause of violence.>> To the extent that a group uses religion only to define itself it's could be considered benign. The danger lies in the group using their beliefs as a basis for asserting their supposed moral superiority and dehumanizing those they might be competing with for resources (or some other basis for conflict). Makes it easy for people to suspend the golden rule if they convince themselves their competitor is 'evil'. john