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Originally Posted by Willravel
That wasn't meant to be a blanket statement of all service men and women, but it does describe the ones that meet at the intersection of god and war. And there are quite a few of those.
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Somewhere between a 1% and 99%, right? You're killing me here.
What about racists who believe that this is a way to kill off "them damn darkies" or other such bullshit?
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Originally Posted by new man
Use of religion to manipulate people into armed combat has been a primary motivational tool for all of humanity. Aztecs and Incas and Mayans all killing each other. The crusades. The Ottoman Empire. All led by religion.
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Fast forward to the United States in 2009... God has been killed off and replaced by cold hard cash, fake tits, and TeeVee.
This thread addresses a single symptom and not the disease: powerful people behaving badly and their henchmen, at whatever scale and of whatever knowledge, doing their bidding. War doesn't change even if the flavor-of-the-conflict motivation does.