Thanks,
Kyuusai. I wanted to say this to you in a positive reputation to you, but I can't leave you more reputation yet. Instead, I'll remark here that it's reassuring to hear that from you. It means a lot, especially knowing that you've dedicated your life (if not all of it, a very large part of it) to religion. You're very open and based on what I've read you certainly seem to be the ideal example of how to embrace religion in a meaningful manner.
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Originally Posted by Backwards Blues
I think that war is war.
Because nasty things had to happen in order for Israel to establish itself does not mean that other people were disregarded as animals, just that they were unfortunate consequences.
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I'm not sure when you joined the forums, but welcome to AnimeSuki
Religion is a very prickly topic, especially the way that we discuss it (and if you go back through this long thread, you'll find that most of us here have gone through three or more discussions over religion in various forms). When you said that you're more of a spiritualist, you immediately earned respect from me. I don't want to turn you off to the forums or to this discussion, as you probably have a lot of valuable knowledge and opinions to contribute. Don't take too much offense to anything that's said here - at least, not until you get to know us a bit better.
I think that the point
Vexx was making here was that war or other acts that resulted in human suffering have been caused by religion. War is war, but a war caused by religion is very unfortunate. It seemingly goes against what religion in general was created for (unless you're a skeptic who claims that religion was made to enslave the minds of people). When a religion declares that all non-believers are free to be hunted and killed, it's essentially declaring that these non-believers aren't human. I think it's a very important piece of history to make note of. Understanding the values of the religion is one thing, but understanding how a religion can be twisted for such horrible acts is something that many people fail to see. Unfortunately that's clearly obvious given modern world events. The Christian Crusades may be hundreds of years old by now, but today we're witnessing the Islamic Jihad. In both cases, the actions that are occurring were not sanctioned by the religion itself.