Re: abortion must be a deciding factor for voting???
would you understand that as the motivation of seminole too, in talking about war mongering prophets in other religions.
I was motivated becuase you said "I think its sad that their religion makes them so hawkish". I was pointing out how that comment is disengenuous since other religions have war built into their holy books and practiced by prophets. So you can't single out Christianity for being hawkish. But there is a difference between "warrior" and "war mongering". Warrior only implies "involved in warfare", not war mongering.
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Pakistan's support for taleban, and the Kashmiri "freedom fighters" had entirely Pakistani-ideological reasons. You're going to sell political decisions to the people, if they happen to be religious you're likely to cast it in that language. im sure if Pakistani people had a different composition, the same decisions would have been cast in a very different, possibly secular light.
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Are you kidding? The whole country is based upon religion, how can you say it isn't part of any policy? The Pakistani constitution states that Islam shall be the state religion of Pakistan and the the Holy Quran and Sunnah shall be the supreme law. So you can't limit religiously- influenced policy in the Pakistani government to MMA influence.
The religious right in the US repulses me. There are so many things Jesus taught that they totally ignore or even take the opposite position. And that they happen to be among the most hawkish makes no sense whatsoever. Organized religion, especially the leadership, in the US has it ALL WRONG.