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Old 09-05-2008, 07:40 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aceventura3 View Post
So, if one group believes that God wants a certain other groups of people removed from the face of the earth or converted, and then another group believes that God wants people to live in freedom and that the strong is obligated to protect the weak - perhaps even those that don't believe there is a God could make a determination on which group is right and which group wrong if the two groups are engaged in a war.
This is such an extreme over-simplification of the whole situation (not to mention being fervently biased in one direction), I don't even know where to start--or whether I really want to, knowing that absolutely zero that I say will be actually heard and considered, other than to look for something to exploit in my answer.

Don't get me wrong--I am not on either side of this war--but you simply cannot take thousands of years of history and politics and write a nice little sentence to boil it all down to make sense with one particular worldview. No.
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