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Originally Posted by Riddil
Ok, fine. Inda sucks. We should declare another Holy War on India and liberate the Christians.
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Yes, way to not overreact to my post. A war of liberation was exactly what I was suggesting.
Don't get your panties in a wad just because your peaceful example turned out to be a war zone. I suspect the same thing will be true of any nation you choose to use as an example.
The only exception are places where the dominant religion is a homogenized civil religion, that makes no actual claims about the nature of God. If you think tradition, ceremony, and exhortation to general good acts are the sum total of religion, then there is no reason why everyone can't get along. But, if you think religion makes real claims about the nature of God, claims that can be true or false, and that those claims have real significance in how we ought to live, then conflict about those ideas is inevitable.
It's kind of like communism - you're free to argue it on the merits, but you'll have to do so without the benefit of an example. It turns out to not be very compatible with how people actually are.