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Scientology started in 1950's. So lets limit ourselves to things that happened after that. So answer your own question: "How many wars have been fought in its
by ars 3y ago
Scientology started in 1950's. So lets limit ourselves to things that happened after that.
So answer your own question: "How many wars have been fought in its name? How many nations conquered and people enslaved?" for other religions? (People organizing along existing religions groupings during a war doesn't count.)
It's certainly not many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war#Modern_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war#Modern_period Seems like: Sudan, Yugoslav, Lebanon is debatable. Could maybe add ISIL.
On the other hand Scientologists have enslaved 5,000 to 10,000 today, right now.
- boffinAudio 3y agoThe religious right-wing who have been driving the USA's criminal wars on Islam across the Middle-East surely also need to be factored into your evaluation...
- mrguyorama 3y agoWe did not go to war with the desert because of religion, but rather much more boring and banal evils like "It will make me more likely to win the next election" and "it will be good for profits" and "my daddy was attacked by this guy"
- boffinAudio 3y agoI don't believe this - I think that the US' oligarchic/military-industrial classes are very definitely motivated by their religious beliefs, and this gives them the false moral altitude they require to blatantly, with impunity, commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and massive violations of human rights - in the name of their One True God™ .. See also: the slavish devotion to maintaining the Palestinian peoples' suffering. A people deemed inferior by religious institutions which have their grasp deep, deep within the American ruling classes' psyche ..