I just realized that my last blog post may be the only thing I've ever written that couldn't have been on paper:http://bit.ly/18nKZi7
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@SamHarrisOrg Yugoslav break up best described as Orthodoxy in conflict with Catholicism and Islam? Or Syrian war simply Alawite and Sunni? -
@peterjukes Mostly. If you want to predict how a society will fracture -- it is usually safe to say that it will be along religious lines. -
@SamHarrisOrg That fails first test. Biggest genocide in last 20 years was Rwanda. Was that a religious split? Or political and cultural? -
@peterjukes I've never said that all wars/genocides have been religious. But faith did play a role in Rwanda. The Virgin Mary kicked it off. -
@SamHarrisOrg But you said it was safe to see most wars in religious terms. Does not explain Hutu Tutsi. Nor major conflicts of 20th Century -
@peterjukes I was talking about civil wars. There are other forms of tribalism, obviously. But religious tribalism is generally the worst. -
@SamHarrisOrg I looks more 'existential' - true. But Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao killed most. Murders based on class and economics, not theology
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