Dear individual,

I do not have monomates as I am an atheist and believe in one fewer god than the monotheists. The tri-believers give their holy wars another label, but they still have holy wars.

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062105097/the-great-and-holy-war/

"The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century.

The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism.

Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war."

david f,
cheers for that enlightenment/information. Just goes to show humans still have a long way to go before they can morally claim the term human.

It is my view that long path humanity must take starts with an understanding of the impacts God, every one of them, has on us, and the shear blind belief that only by living our life on our knees worshiping a deity that we invented is holding us back

If there is a God, God he must be just so disillusioned with humans.

Dear Toni Lavis,

Thank you for your post of Saturday, 7 July 2018 9:24:42 AM.

What does it have to do with religion anyway.

I have a question.

Is the media fighting the good fight?

Look at this article.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/5514850/holiday-makers-attacked-woman-sexually-assaulted-in-jindabyne/

Renner when a headline was used to gain interest in a story?

I think they are deliberately doing the opposite.

Why doesn't the headline say 'Rape Gang on the Loose'