Yeah - and in the past people have burned over that one. Isn't it amazing what has been done in the name of religion!?

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn

People have been killed over much more trivial things than religion.

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Let me tell you bout a girl I know, she like hip-hop and rock n' roll,
She walk slow down the avenue, I ain't met her but I get her when I do
Let me tell you bout a girl I know, she stay home cause she hate the club
I ain't met her but I get her when I do...

~Shwayze

No argument here.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn

They may share the same basic roots, but how they interpret those differs widely.

Well, I don't believe there is a Judeo-Xtian ethic or mindset. The two religions look at everything too differently.

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn

Well, obviously religions are different...or there wouldn't be so many of them.

That said, we're all human beings, which means we have some things in common...and end up asking the same questions.

Why be moral, when so often it's the wicked one that gets the nice house, the beautiful women, the cars, the Lehman Brothers Stock...(oops)...and the good guy that ends up losing his house because he was convinced by a wicked guy to get into a sub prime mortgage?

Why be moral, when the rain falls on the wicked as well as the just? Why be moral when in the end, the grave claims them both?

What does "being moral" mean, to begin with?

Religions strive to answer such questions...and often come up with similar answers...although there can be variations depending on the environment. In India, for example, it's immoral to kill a cow, while in Iowa, it is not. Why? The people of India depend on those cows in order to live. A cow can feed more people with its milk than it can if it is slaughtered...which is important in times of famine. At least, that's what I remember being taught years ago...

Not is such numbers though.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

They're all equally similar, and all equally improbable, and all equally irrelevant, to me.

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