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To: John Locke
Likewise paganism. No war of religion has ever been fought between pagan societies.

Pagan societies don't condemn war so it's not a contradiction with their religion. Think of Greece and Rome and Mars. Or look at the wars of the Aztecs to get prisioners to sacrfice to Qu--.

Or the Vikings. Or the Celts.

Pagan societies were very warlike.

30 posted on 05/19/2004 7:29:18 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7
I agree that pagan societies are pretty warlike - as are most societies. What my post said, however, was that pagan societies did not fight religious wars. They fought wars for lots of other reasons, but the stupid "mine is the One True God so die, Infidel!" was not one of them.

By the way, the last war of religion between Christians was in the 1940s, between Catholic Croatians and Orthodox Serbs. It exterminated more than half a million.

42 posted on 05/20/2004 11:05:06 PM PDT by John Locke
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