RE: tribal violence (was: RE: would you vote for this man?)

From: Terry Donaghe (terry@Donaghe.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 23:06:48 MDT

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    Isn't Islam a good bit younger than Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism?
    Islam is like the teenager of world religions. It took an awful long time
    for Christianity to "simmer down." Perhaps, as religions mature, their
    followers get a bit more laid back. Now, obviously some Hindus and
    Christians can still get rabble roused and incited to violence, but in
    general their followers seem to be less raucous.

    I think part of the problem is

    Terry Donaghe
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    From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org] On
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    Subject: Re: tribal violence (was: RE: would you vote for this man?)

    Ok, so Damien makes some reasonable counterpoints to my arguments
    that other religious groups may be less violent than Islam.
    (So my comments on who might be the most violent religious groups
    may be open to significant debate.)

    But *what* then is driving these people to irrational behavior?
    Is it simply "salvation" in the afterlife, e.g. really gone wrong
    mental programming? Social pressure? Desire for power by the leaders?
    It simply does not seem rational.

    It is not a trivial question as many of these groups will be
    opposed to the entire extropian/transhumanistic agenda.
    We are just lucky that we tend to be off of their radar at this time.

    R.



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