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>Of course they are unrealistic - but so are the works of Shakespeare, or Dante, or Goethe, or any great poet in the last 3000 years. Last time I checked, ther
by ohithereyou 8y ago
>Of course they are unrealistic - but so are the works of Shakespeare, or Dante, or Goethe, or any great poet in the last 3000 years.
Last time I checked, there weren't nations willing to go to war and religious orders wiling to persecute and murder people based on the works of Shakespeare, Dante, or Goethe.
- ConceptJunkie 8y agoWhat about Hitler or Marx or Engels? It isn't just religious texts that result in wars.
- 0_gravitas 8y agoBut they do result in them often enough, dont they? Or are at least used to justify a lot of war-related actions.
- ohithereyou 8y agoThose texts were treated as religious texts in the regimes that followed them.