>All I can say is, what a thread!
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>I believe this thread and the depth and width of the discussions being presented here only validate what I have believed all along. Human beings cannot exist without conflict. It's God's greatest test and one that we seemed doomed to fail. There have been wars and genocides since almost the beginning of time. And most have had something to do with religion. We are constantly given the opportunity to learn from our mistakes yet, alas, we continue to repeat those mistakes.
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>Peace to you all,
>N8


Hi N8,

That is so nicely put up together, but you are mistaken about mistake part :)

Except for that grammar mistake that wiped out some nation in Roman times (can't remeber exactly...) , wars and attrocities are NEVER done by mistake.

Those who start the wars are not fools who keep on make mistakes, they know very well what they are doing. Fools are those who believe that war is right thing to do, for ANY reason.

It was never beacuse of God or democracy or altruism/hummanity reasons of any sort. *In the name of* maybe, but never because of.

It is/was always about getting something than you can't get otherwise.
Weather it is other willage water, cattle, or it is other country gold, land, sea, oil etc.
Just like ordinary crime, but much much bigger. Something like *armed robberies* but involving - actual armies instead of small bunch of headwrapped criminals.

Willage maggicians 6000 years ago - Religion enterprises in medieval times - Politicians/Media today, always knew very well how to push lot of people against each other for nothing else but - plain profit.

But don't worry, we will not disappear because of wars
That is 'business as usual' for human kind, It is our dirt and pollution that will kill us all at the end.