>>Oh yeah... Christians and Jews are superior clearly... they would never kill. Sure,
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>>When have the Jewish people ever launched a Crusade or an Inquisition. As a matter of fact, when one wants the convert to Judaism, the first thing the Rabbi does is to try to dissuade him or her.
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>And what guarantee does this give? I could convert to Judaism, go insane and kill 10 palestinians because I think I'm superiour and invincible. In fact, as you might be aware this happened a lot in the occupied areas where colonist claim to have the right to build there. I probably also don't have to point out that there also are jewish terrorist organisations that don't care a hoot of the life another human being not of their religion.
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>As for the question about the crusade and inquisition, I think that if you talk to some palestinians in gaza or libanon you'll get a total diiferent viewpoint.
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>I'm not taking any side here, trying to be objective, not to polute my mind with opinions of anyone who think their religion is superiour. As soon as they start claiming that, the more suspicious I get about their motives.
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>Walter,

What I find most distasteful is when people do things "in the name of religion" for an agenda that really has little or nothing to do with religious nature. In those cases I wouldn't fault the religion but those who are simply using religion as a tool to justify their actions.