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Old 05-25-2017, 01:20 PM   #3006 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
Funny you say that because there are historical examples of Buddhist monks slaughtering women and children

What radicalizes religion?

Politics, War, poverty etc. not the religion itself
I just said that I agreed that religion was not the precipitating factor. Moderate Buddhism was just an arbitrary choice. So, do you not agree that religion is a legitimate variable in extremist terrorism?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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