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Debate:Listing the Earth's most pressing needs in urgent order of fixing (view source)
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: Northern Ireland is a political dispute, not a religious one, even though the two political sides are split along nominally religious lines.
: Northern Ireland is a political dispute, not a religious one, even though the two political sides are split along nominally religious lines.
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:54, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:54, 10 May 2007 (EDT)
::A fellow Aussie! Hip hip, Huzzah! Anyway, I am surprised that you deny this as it is well documented and quite easy to find some simple facts about it.
::Ok they are all different in some respects. The reason I lump them all together is because all of them are about defending the indefencible in the face of overwhelming evidence, and because they are all a tool to discourage individual thought and different POV's.
::Please enlighten me with some example of this 'good' that christianity, or protentism, has done because I have found none that is not outweighed enormously by the amount of death and suffering it has caused over the years.
:: Northern Ireland is a political dispute, however without the definition of one side as catholics, and the others as protestants, the trouble would have ended long ago. Instead a rival group mentality is fostered by sending children to denominational religious schools, by going to church and by marrying into the same group. If it wasn't for this, there would be no way of telling who was on what side, or any easy ways with which to inspire hatred. [[User:Bolly Ottihw|Bolly Ottihw]] 22:10, 10 May 2007