You are showing much faith in our political and social foundations, something I do not share. That alone will make us bias to opposite opinions..
No, I'm telling you simple facts about the world today...
Modern technology has made almost every aspect of life easier,
There’s war crime laws now,
Child Labour is illegal in most places,
Child marriage and sexual acts on children are illegal in most places,
Woman have just as much rights as men in a lot of places,
Medical advances have made yesterdays killers into today’s colds...
Police forces are getting more efficient with technology,
Crime has gone down over the years,
Life expectancy has gone up in most places,
People are more tolerant of others.
Sure some places are better off then others but pretty much all places are better off then they were 100 years ago. Europe went though its industrial revolution first, that’s is now why we are the 'rich world'.
But we had to do it alone... with no outside aid, it was a horrible time to live, smog, children put in the most horrible jobs you could imagine that not even an adult would be expected to do... Far worse things. But now we have emerged from that and now other countries that are going though their own versions of this have lots of guidance and laws to abide and outside help, they'll never have it as bad.
You go to some of the most far reaching, most remote tribes in the world and there’s a good chance you will see at least some of them wearing western made clothes maybe even having a village jeep to get around and modern medicine.
If you are going to extend it to any war that had any involvement with religion, then you could say the same about just about anything on earth. Money, Politics, personal issues, skin colour, resources, land, etc etc.
Honestly, I don't think religion is any more responsible for wars than any of those other things, and yet people don't get mad at others for having political views or being involved in finance etc.
So you have come full circle and are agreeing with me.
All I ever said is that it is one of the biggest, I said two biggest maybe I was hastey but it's easily one of the biggest reasons for war (and terrorism).
I never said I'm angry at people being religious! I'm not even trying to argue that he can't be or shouldn't just as I've never argued against people having political views or being in finance. I think lifes to short to tell people what to believe or even care what they believe.
I simply said from what I know Religions are one of the big causes of war and often make people narrow minded and intolerable to other people’s beliefs... even today.
And it boils down to this for me at least, If one guy that’s a Muslim and one guy that’s a Catholic become friends they might be the best of friends but at the end of the day if you bring up the subject both believe that the other is going to burn in hell... While I believe that nobody is going to burn in hell. Am I coming across as the bad guy here?
