[FoRK] More faith-driven insanity: kill the teacher!

[Jeff Bone]

On Nov 30, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Luis Villa wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2007 1:56 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
>>
>>> Violent religion is the symptom, not the cause.
>>
>> I disagree.  In fact, that's a ridiculous assertion on the face of  
>> it.
>
> It's only ridiculous if you're not paying attention to basic
> political-behavioral psychology. Fear, threat, and uncertainty cause
> irrational, violent behavior against the Other; sometimes that shows
> up as religion, but often as politics, or tribalism, or what have you.

Agreed with all of that;  but that in no way suggests, much less  
PROVES, causality flowing *from* any of those things *to* religion!

jb