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Originally Posted by PortraitOfSanity
But Western religion is also really about power and/or money. So arguing that religion hasn't caused said wars/genocides is rather silly.
I exclude Buddhism and Hinduism from this argument, like I said, Western.
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They're just the organisations, which, um, organise the bureaucratic side of the religion.
I consider the religion itself to be the beliefs and deities etc. The power/money side is just a corruption of the original cause created by humans. It's not the religion's fault.
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