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Originally Posted by S-2
It's all B.S. Religion is the opium of the un-educated masses and is exploited as such. It has great value but is just another tool of political mobilization in the wrong hands and a pliable audience.
Education, free press, unfettered and free trade, good laws, strong courts, and respect for institutions. Hard to achieve. Always worth it. The only answer.
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WELL SAID!!!! Might I add to the matter that dead men do not litigate.
I will give religion in general kudos for providing us with some spectacular wars over the last few thousand years. I wish someone would have invented videotape earlier. I mean c'mon. Wouldn't you have rather seen actual footage of thermopylae instead of the "300"
