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Date Posted: Wed, 03/26/03 10:53pm
Author: sunny
Subject: Re: Christianity and War .....
In reply to: john mohdom 's message, "Re: Christianity and War ....." on Sun, 03/23/03 10:44pm

Good points John,
I agree that the technology is what makes the killing so much more vastly overwhelming and "depersonalized" .... and maybe these/those cultures would have developed in the same way whether they'd ever heard of an obscure desert prophet or not .... interesting to think about, ....

thanks,
sunny

>I won't disagree that much death has been dealt under
>the banner of Christianity. I don't think it's the
>nature of the religion that creates the correlation so
>much as it is the nature of the cultures that embrace
>it that are (sometimes) more violent. It's a religion
>of primarily urbanized cultures and it's those
>cultures who have the technology to create the most
>violent engines of war.
>
> Those cultures are also male dominated status
>hierarchical cultures...it's logical they would
>choose/create a religion that reflects that.
>
>I also believe most any religion can be subverted to
>rationalize war.
>
>I'll also note that I see many efforts at creating
>peace, social services, and egality are also done in
>the name of Christianity.

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