Posted on 09/26/2004 5:21:57 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
#260..17th century
#260 concerning 17th century religious wars...
They've been showing "the look" all day on fox, et al....love it! I even had a friend come to dinner tonight who's pure democRAT, and she even was talking about "the look" and how it los the election for that jerk! :~>
Bosh! Pish posh and bosh! I says now. What makes people willing to risk life, limb and property -- to die for a cause? In large number, over longish, at-the-time-indeterminate periods.
Nothing less than "religion". Their deep internal beliefs.
Look to that religious impulse, marshalled in a nation, in a region, in a group -- there you find by my hypothesis the proximal, the triggering and the sustaining cause of war.
It's no easy thing for us moderns to look into that aspect -- even though it is fundamental, intrinsic and without it no cause may be found but a plethora of nonsense.
What say, is the religious founding of the Viet Nam War?
I was actually only providing information about the religious wars of the 17th century...I am no historian.
There are no historians. The Bastille has been liberated!
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