[QUOTE]Originally posted by Metatron:
[B]So when muslims fill mass graves with christians in bosnia its "economic" is it. And when christians ethnically cleanse an area thats "economic" too. The israeli's destroying palestinian settlements whilst building their own in defiance of un resolutions is "economic".[B][/QUOTE]
Yep it is, the basic problem of economics is "limited resources infinite wants." all those examples are one group taking the resources from another, sure they are religious groups, but you see the same thing through history with secular nations and empires, gangs and their "turf" etc...
Anytime a group of people start identifying themselves in a way that excludes other groups the possibility of war to acquire more of the finite resources available is possible (and in many cases highly likely)....
Religions do often foster this sort of group identity but then so do sports teams, geographic regions, nations etc.....
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