I just don’t get it, am i missing something? is religion not the cause of %95 of bloodshed in the middle east?
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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51849
JERUSALEM—As an uneasy truce between Israel and Hezbollah continues, millions of average men and women in the Holy Land are turning to the one simple comfort that has always seen them through the darkest days of their troubled history: the steadfast guidance of their religious faith.
“I take solace in knowing that my faith is a sanctuary, an escape from the bloodshed and turmoil,” said Haifa resident Yigal Taheri, who last week lost his wife and newborn daughter
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am i missing something? is religion insanity i.e. doing the same thing over and over expecting different results?
The insanity to me is that the Violence goes against most religions and yes more people throughout history have died from religion than anything else except old age.
Eh, what does that have to do with religion? It’s 100% politics at this point.
Ah yes, well, that’s what you get when you use the Onion as your news source :P
yes, well the difference is that heroin addicts aren’t brought up in culture fueled by heroin in all of its facets.
It could be that they just don’t know life any other way. To them, violence is a part of day to day life like traffic jams are to us.