One morning, while purchasing coffee at a local watering hole, I heard a fundamentalist say something about man's law vs. God's law. At the time I marveled how people come up with such sharp distinctions. Freedom of religion deserves no respect because it is something that human beings came up with. Stoning sinners, on the other hand, is a duty
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Are you asking if it is "natural" to view the Other as Less Than? It obviously is. How is this material to anything?
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Indeed. In fact, the Punic Wars were largely the result of excessive Bible study!
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The Mongols, BTW, did what they did because they essentially brought modern military organization and prototypical fire, maneuver, and gunpowder to a medieval battlefield. By the time they met professional armies like the Mamluks they were slaughtered. They did overrun the proto-industrial Song Empire, to be sure, but that's how they got gunpowder in the first place.
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