"Peace through God"
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wolven7From 3 Quarks Daily:
'Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett have recently led a charge against religion, and one of their main accusations is that religion encourages violence. This claim recalls similar ones that violent video games or pornography cause criminal behavior. Sometimes they might, but sometimes they clearly don’t. It’s hard to isolate causes of human violence because violence is so common.
'What if religion can serve either to incite or reduce violence, depending on some details that we have the good fortune to be able to influence?'
'Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett have recently led a charge against religion, and one of their main accusations is that religion encourages violence. This claim recalls similar ones that violent video games or pornography cause criminal behavior. Sometimes they might, but sometimes they clearly don’t. It’s hard to isolate causes of human violence because violence is so common.
'What if religion can serve either to incite or reduce violence, depending on some details that we have the good fortune to be able to influence?'
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Date: 2007-08-20 10:10 pm (UTC)Like ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCE, there are no constants. How people take the things they take away from religion, the rest of their lifestyle, and childhood and countless other factors play into this.
I want to punch Dawkins. So very badly. And he can't blame it on religion.
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Date: 2007-08-20 11:34 pm (UTC)