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April 24th, 2010 admin No comments

marx truth
What are your views on all these appointments?

"Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the teachers is not in doubt), but everyone always has a key role in a war that is ongoing or planned. "Howard Nemerov When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad. This is my religion. "Abraham Lincoln" Religious suffering is at the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of the world without heart and soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. "Karl Marx" Truth is my God. Non-violence is my way of report. "Mohandas K. Gandhi Thoughts, opinions?

I love all the quotes, but I doubt the validity "always" in the Howard Nemerov one. Is religion "is to always have a key role in any war? And that science," always is having a "dominant role, etc? do not think this is true for religion or science. First," always "is a very high standard to meet, and a high percentage of statements that contain the word "always" wrong. Secondly, I do not think it's difficult to find wars where neither science and religion seems to have played an important role. The war in ancient Greece Pelopponesian, as recorded by Thucydides, is a famous example. Today many people have heard, but was one of the main reasons for the final collapse of Athenian democracy, and increased later, Alexander the Great. Pelopponesian the war seems to have been driven mainly by Athens and Sparta greed and ambition, with the class conflict between democrats and oligarchs in most Greek city states also plays a minor role. But the combatants on both sides of this war was nearly the same religion, and access to technology and science has been quite limited. Many of the early wars fought against the Roman republic neighboring states of the city, as reported in Livy's history of Rome, also seem to land seizures have been simple – well, land seizures, coupled with the possibility that the victorious Roman soldiers rape the women of the tribe and enslave conquered most of the vanquished. These wars of Rome built the fortress and to protect the victims to nearby towns that were almost as ruthless as the Romans were. Again, the technologies involved were primitive and religious differences between the combatants were minimal. Many wars in West Africa between 1500 – 1800 AD, as well as roundups of slaves, especially its closest neighbors, with the aim of seizing prisoners to sell to Europeans. brutal conquest of Genghis Khan and the amazing African society against one of the approximately 12 million square miles of territory in Asia and Europe over the centuries 12 and13th also appears to have involved relatively religious inspiration few and relatively little science. The Mongols were superb horsemen of Genghis was a genius and the conversion of the tribal warriors conquered by armed warriors in the culture of Mongols, and his simple desire to destroy that resisted probably frightened many peoples conquered by giving the Mongol horde. Later in life, Genghis Khan seems to have interested religion, including Christianity professed by one of his concubines. But I do not think it started as a very pious. Or very scientific, it is. That being said, I think Howard Nemerov expresses an important truth, but overestimates.

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