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Originally Posted by Slite
Yeah, maybe forbidding religion is taking it to the extreme. But why the heck can't we just get along? Or if you have differences, solve it with a pillow fight or something, just don't take it out on innocent people!
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On that note .... I just read an article about Genghis Khan, who .... and I am not kidding here .... when his son-in-law was murdered and his daughter demanded revenge, killed every living creature (dogs, cats, birds, and a population of over 1,780,000 people) in one of the largest cities in the world in the 13th century, because that's where the murder happened.
Talk about taking it out on innocent people (and animals).
I think the biggest problem isn't religion, or skin color, or nationalities, or any difference you can name. It's just that people are not schooled in, nor do they value, critical thinking. They are also too prone to handing over huge amounts of power to people who are probably clinically insane. The combination can be, and often is, deadly.