okay, they probably aren't, but my friend mustang sent me this link that describes a journey by christians to retrace the route of the last crusade in the 1100's in order to apologize to the very people who were massacred by it. very powerful and a good moral lesson for those of us who think "our god is bigger than their god".
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cru1.htm
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Lest we forget, there have been several other "instances" of religion-based warfare that has just gone unnoticed by the mob...
The Inca and Mayan cultures fell prey to Catholic-Spainards armed with horses, muskets and small-pox.
American Indians were killed or incarcerated by Christian Europeans, branded as "heathens".
Bosnia...
Uganda...
Botswana...
Soviet Union...
China...
Nepal...
It seems to me that religion does more to establish grounds upon which to discriminate, rather than to embrace...
Christians..
Catholics..
Jews..
Muslims..
Buddists..
Shintoists..
Yuck
M
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