Religion willl be illegal in the future......

[Bigdaddydvo]

Why wait 500 years? Get started on banning religion yourself! The 1st Amendment is pretty overrated anyway, and I'm certain that with your persuasive grass roots message, you could manage its repeal.

I hope you're right (not about the illegal part but about the no religion part), but that's fairly unrealistic. We have solid evidence now that all religions are ridiculous, but that doesn't seem to change much in the world becuase...

people are stupid

[IronUnkind]

Will there be sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads?

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Will there be sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads?

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Yup, and there will be robot reservations too.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

The current terrorism, most wars past, and wars we have'nt fought yet, were all religion based

Let's first ignore the complete illiteracy of the above quote.

Then let's just take the wars the US has fought and see, what *most* were fought over.

- The American Revolution - basically a tax revolt
- The War of 1812 - we used the excuse that the british were forcing American sailors into their service
- The Indian Wars - territory
- The Mexican War - territory
- The Civil War - economic issues & slavery, some might say consolidation of federal power
- The Spanish-American War - Again, territory
- WWI - I don't see religion here
- WWII - I don't see a religious link here
- Korea - UN action to stop aggression
-Vietnam - I don't think we can call anti-communism a religion
- Desert Storm - UN action, like Korea
- Iraq - There's a religious aspect to this on their side.

So, I guess you have a strange definition of *most.* Now, I usually am in agreement that religion has caused moe pain and suffering in human history than anything except communism, but a post as stupid as yours had to be addressed.

Good point, Kurn, son of Mogh! I would add to it that wars have to paid for, so who writes the checks. Usually, wars are financed by selling bonds to rich people. So why do societies write checks? Because they want to make money (or keep their possessions from being plundered). So I would say that every war, and if not every than the vast vast majority are caused by economic interests.

Of course, that doesn't mean that the cannon fodder won't be given a religious speach to pep them up a bit...

[doggin]

People like you amuse me.

Norman Schwarzkopf has made many references to wars being fought by troops marching into battle bearing the Cross
of Jesus. All through this current Iraq clusterfuck, both Bush and Saddam has made numerous references to God.

You posted the root cause or reason of wars you listed.
All were fought with strong religious conviction, if not
by the individual, then by their host country.

Anti-communism not religious based??? ROFL!

[purnell]

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People like you amuse me.

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The feeling is mutual, I'm sure.

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I'd actually be interested in what steps would be required to make this true.