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   From: ahnemann@optonline.net   
      
   "Siwel Naph"  wrote in message   
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   > "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.   
   >   
   > We can see that clearly. 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?   
   >   
   Read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.  It has always been thus.  We are   
   a stiff-necked bunch.  All of us.   
      
   >> Like saying Terrorism is a war of religion, etc.   
   >   
   > Well, many terrorists say it is. Are they insincere?   
      
   Insincere seems a too soft word to characterize a terrorist, no? I wouldn't   
   presume to guess what they are.   
      
   Blessings,   
   Ann   
      
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