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   From: bree@bree.com   
      
   On 6 Oct 2005 09:15:13 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >"AJA" wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Religious wars did involve quite a large percent of Christians, and   
   >>> were begun by the Pope and Calvin and people like that, weren't they?   
   >>   
   >> Whoa!  Better do some more homework.  It is the merest shorthand to   
   >> call these wars Wars of Religion, when in the main they were political   
   >> wars.   
      
   Well, yes, I'd suppose most wars are. Cheops pyramid and all that. But if   
   there's no such thing as a Religious War and never has been, anywhere ...   
   still there were a few wars in England that got called 'religious'. -- So   
   who called them religious, and why?   
      
      
   >We can see that clearly.   
      
   Pretty clearly in Ireland and Sri Lanka, anyway. People want home rule or a   
   separate country.   
      
      
   >Why did people at the time not do so and refrain   
   >from offending against their faith so badly? Is our religion perhaps   
   >contaminated with politics in a different way that they would see   
   >clearly?   
   >   
   >> Like saying Terrorism is a war of religion, etc.   
   >   
   >Well, many terrorists say it is. Are they insincere?   
      
   Oh, good point!   
      
      
   Bree   
      
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