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Yeah, I'm mostly talking about Blackwater - but the infrastructure of the Conservative complex in America is ridiculous. I guess the meetings they hold annually to establish their moral majority enactments are headed by people descended from Maltan Knights? There is little doubt that these people wholeheartedly believe that they are doing God's work in conquering middle eastern nations and exterminating cultures and religions that are unlike their own in mere character, alone.
Whether religion has much to do with or not is a matter of perspective. It's impossible to say what people truly believe deep down, despite what they might say in public. There's plenty to gain from siding with a well-established theocratic political party who happens to pull some very large economic strings. And with that in mind, there is plenty more reason to start wars and conquer nations when it gets you contracts and other lucrative opportunities which allow and serve your particular or expressed interests.
Rome had a large part in many of the crusades, didn't they? Or at least an influenced incarnation of them did at some point, that's for sure. And didn't Hitler have a strong interest in the occult? I've read several times that Himmler was the head of his blood cult.
I do understand that the presence of religion does not necessarily dictate the aim of conflict though, and that most issues which arise are social/cultural ones. Seems to me that religion, being a social and cultural component which affects people on a very individual and moral level is a strong thing to take the name of, so this tendency is often manipulated into political or economic gain on someone's part. It's rarely religion which is the true problem in most cases. Despite what the atheists say.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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