Nice little J&M cartoon this week. After all, one of the main purposes of religion since the beginning of time has been to create or cement "us and them" scenarios that promote/justify the supremacy of one group over another, we're all just monkeys in shoes after all! One needs only look at Israel and Gaza right now to see where the entrenchment of moral certitude layered on top of land and resource disputes invariably leads. Of course religion is rarely the sole source of division, but you can't look at Palestine right now and claim that religious differences and their associated literalist dogmas are "helping" the situation. Imagine how difficult it would be to justify (and sell) the current actions on either side without the crutches of religion, culture or race (all arbitrary and subjective), the underlying base "Human" motivations (i.e. avarice, envy and ambition) would be much more evident.
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