I think you can argue that Nazism, and classic Bolshevik communism were religions. For instance Hitler and Gobbels made an active effort to replace Christianity with Nazism as the official religion. And Communism was a religion.
I suspect that if you scratched a fanatic, you'd find religion. On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[email protected]> wrote: > It's also a pretty serious fallacy to point to the actions of extremists as > representative of the whole of the religious community, particularly when you > understand that most religions *are* fundamentally peaceful at their core. > There are certainly just as many examples in history of evils done in the > lack of religion, or as part of religious oppression. We certainly see MANY > extremists that act outside the bounds of religion, I personally think that > religion has very little to do with it, they just always find *some* reason > to justify their actions, sometimes it's religious and just as often it's > not. Hitler, Stalin, Kmer Rouge, take your pick. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308271 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
