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Quote by: gela The Bible doesn't directly say 'violence is a sin' or 'war is against gods will'.
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Not necessarily a bad thing. America was criticized for entering WWII too late, and rightfully so.
It's just people wage war far too often to be justified.
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My issues are not with believing in a god - its in blindly following a text.
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Not even just blindly following a text. Blindly following a single view of the text, or even just what they believe is in the text.
The best example of this is how the Christian right is so for family values, when Jesus was a strong proponent against most of the values.
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Religion (supposedly) dictates our morals.
Idealy, it should allow for human nature, and it should preach against intolerance, and for understanding.
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Now if we could just get both Atheists and Theists to realize that...