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What’s More Dangerous, Religion or Political Ideology?
IWB ^ | Daniel Carter

Posted on 07/16/2018 7:40:09 AM PDT by davikkm

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1 posted on 07/16/2018 7:40:09 AM PDT by davikkm
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Political ideology killed tens of millions more people in the 20th century alone then all the “religious wars” combined.


2 posted on 07/16/2018 7:41:44 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (2016: For the first time since 1984, I voted for a Rep President all other votes were anti Dem)
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Depends on the teaching of the particular religion or political ideology.

I can tell you which one is more powerful: Religion.


3 posted on 07/16/2018 7:42:22 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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PEOPLE, in general, need to be watched. Religion is less dangerous, Id say because you have the word itself to throw into the faces of anyone running off the reservation, in the matter of Jews and Christians. In the matter of Islam...well, those words speak for themselves.


4 posted on 07/16/2018 7:44:20 AM PDT by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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Communism and Islam are the bloodiest philosophies in history.


5 posted on 07/16/2018 7:44:43 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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“What’s More Dangerous, Religion or Political Ideology?”

They are far more dangerous when melded together such as global warming as both a religion and political ideology.


6 posted on 07/16/2018 7:45:27 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Political ideology ended slavery too... and created the concepts behind our rule of law and Bill of Rights.


7 posted on 07/16/2018 7:45:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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This is the one that so many anti-Christian liberals seem to be blinded to. It’s amazing how easy it is to shut them down, utterly and finally on this specific issue. The only response is to move the goalposts.


8 posted on 07/16/2018 7:46:24 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: davikkm

Zealotry


9 posted on 07/16/2018 7:46:44 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Bulls-eye.


10 posted on 07/16/2018 7:47:35 AM PDT by Arlis
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Have to define these terms. I think that for many people politics has become their religion. Geertz wrote “A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.” To me the dreams of the political left are just such a system of symbols.


11 posted on 07/16/2018 7:48:02 AM PDT by babble-on
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“Political ideology ended slavery too... and created the concepts behind our rule of law and Bill of Rights”

Political ideology also signed the death warrants of tens of thousands of white South AFricans.


12 posted on 07/16/2018 7:48:21 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: davikkm

Neither; it’s people.


13 posted on 07/16/2018 7:49:30 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: davikkm

They are equally dangerous when in the hands of
True Believers.


14 posted on 07/16/2018 7:49:53 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: GOPJ

Which grew out of the Judaic/Christian religious code.


15 posted on 07/16/2018 7:50:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (2016: For the first time since 1984, I voted for a Rep President all other votes were anti Dem)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Communism and Islam are the bloodiest philosophies in history.

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Bullseye!


16 posted on 07/16/2018 7:50:59 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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...religion has inspired people to commit some of the obscenest atrocities in human history; The Crusades...

The Crusades were a RESPONSE to the Mooslim horde invasions, which you didn't mention, Skippy.

17 posted on 07/16/2018 7:51:42 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: davikkm

It depends on what religion you espouse. Jesus is the Prince of Peace, teaching His followers,”Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called the children of God.” Islam instructs its adherents to kill those who will not submit to Islamic rule. There is a world of difference.


18 posted on 07/16/2018 7:51:48 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Without asking which Religion or Political Ideology, the question is pointless.
Most religions don't do mass killings but there is one that does.
Most political ideologies don't wipe out large segments of their own population but there is one that does.
Hint: They are the most popular religion and ideology among the Left.

19 posted on 07/16/2018 7:52:30 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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The answer is political ideology... study history, “religion” only becomes deadly when it morphs into political ideology. One that demands (like Marxism, Fascism, Islam) your compliance at the point of the sword. Preachers that warn of Hell, cannot act to enforce it on you without an accompanying political ideology to make it happen. In the middle ages the punishments of the Inquisition were executed by the civil (political) authorities. #ThinkAboutIt!


20 posted on 07/16/2018 7:53:20 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The biggest threat to your sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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