>Gruss Gott wrote: >>> gMoney wrote: >>> >>>> Atheism is on the rise! Woo hoo! >>>> >>> Why would this be comforting....?? >>> >> Have you seen Religulous? > > >Not yet, but I will Netflix it someday when I have the energy to watch >something like that. > >I read an article that made an interesting over arching argument that >the First World War as a conflict of political dogmas, the Second World >War was a conflict of economic dogmas and that the Third will be >conflict of the religious. Simplified of course, but the author made >good points about some of the basic underlining forces driving the >previous global conflicts.
It must be really simplified. how does WWI be seen as a conflict of political dogmas, I thought it was a clash among imperialist systems - British, French and Russian Empires against the German, Austrian and Turkish Empires. The political dogmas were essentially the same. It was more like the WWII was the clash among political dogmas - fascism vs. "democracies" and an oligarchy. The Cold War was more of a clash between economic dogmas. All that said, I thought the religious wars ended 300 or 400 years ago with the Muslim Turks trying to invade Hungary. > >I have often wondered, usually privately until now, if a lot of the >current uproar from religious groups isn't their death throws to the >realization that a common religion is not society's glue and driving >force for much of humanity that it once was. Those that truly believe >faith is a private matter are probably unfazed by this concept. But to >those that must belong to a group, and the top group at that, this is >can be truly terrifying. Thus they are striking out ever more >forcefully to prevent this evolution. > >P.S. >Has anybody else realized that most children currently in grade school >will study World War I as a conflict that occurred over a century ago! >This from a solidly middle age person who clearly remembers meeting >senior citizens and relatives who served in that conflict as a grade >school student himself. Or is it just me feeling old realizing my two >children are such people. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291232 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
