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Originally Posted by Matthew Shea  Agreed. That tends to be the nature of religion, though. Each one tends to say "OK, now WE have it all figured out. HERE's the true path to eternal happiness. Forget all that other stuff you've heard." After centuries and centuries of hearing that message, it's so deeply ingrained in people's heads that they begin to see people who vary from their belief system as an enemy. It's sad, really, but that's the way it tends to be. |
True. And many people don't seem to have considered that if they were born somewhere else, they'd be likely to hold the opposite view to their current one, just as dogmatically as they currently do. Location can change people's beliefs as much as time.