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M0nica

Religion is also used to mask the real cause of war and many a secular leader has used religion to justify.

The sectarian troubles in Northern ireland do not have their roots in religion. They have their roots in the English determination to take over Ireland, including making them give up their catholic faith and become protestants. As Irish/ British people all look the same, the only way to identify someone Irish was by their religion, so laws were introduced stopping catholics owning land, and after the Flight of the Earls in 1607, the English took over their land they owned in Ulster and offered them to people throughout Britain, providing they were protestants, which meant loyal to the crown and British rule. Most of those who went over were Scots, hence the large number of Scots surnames in Northern Ireland.

As I said always seen as a religious war, when it is nothing of he sort.

Quite.

Sometimes it is not what you want to do that matters but what is in your best interest. They are not the same.

Religion is also used to mask the real cause of war and many a secular leader has used religion to justify.

The sectarian troubles in Northern ireland do not have their roots in religion. They have their roots in the English determination to take over Ireland, including making them give up their catholic faith and become protestants. As Irish/ British people all look the same, the only way to identify someone Irish was by their religion, so laws were introduced stopping catholics owning land, and after the Flight of the Earls in 1607, the English took over their land they owned in Ulster and offered them to people throughout Britain, providing they were protestants, which meant loyal to the crown and British rule. Most of those who went over were Scots, hence the large number of Scots surnames in Northern Ireland.

As I said always seen as a religious war, when it is nothing of he sort.

Buttonjugs (The website won’t let me quote your post.)

Religion is the number one cause of war and it’s dangerous.

//In their recently published book, “Encyclopedia of Wars,” authors Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod document the history of recorded warfare, and from their list of 1763 wars only 123 have been classified to involve a religious cause, accounting for less than 7 percent of all wars and less than 2 percent of all people killed in warfare. While, for example, it is estimated that approximately one to three million people were tragically killed in the Crusades, and perhaps 3,000 in the Inquisition, nearly 35 million soldiers and civilians died in the senseless, and secular, slaughter of World War 1 alone.

History simply does not support the hypothesis that religion is the major cause of conflict.//
- The Huffington Post
www.huffpost.com/entry/is-religion-the-cause-of-_b_1400766

54% of the less than 7% of all wars that involved religion were waged in the name of Islam, and 46% in the name of all other religions put together.

I don’t believe in god, and neither do you. According to multiple religions there are multiple gods and you only believe in one. So you don’t believe in god unless it’s a specific one.

I think you know which specific god fancythat means. But even if you didn’t, it wouldn’t be justifiable to say that she doesn’t believe in God. She would still be a believer even if you didn’t know what type of believer.

That made me think of the old one ‘ Did Adam or Eve have a belly button ?

Hollysteers ‘When ‘God’ designed birth for women, why didn’t ’he/she’ come up with a better idea?’
I think it was Cilla Black who said that if God was a woman the fun house wouldn’t have been placed so close to the toilet.

To change my MOT date.
Thinking what chores to do when my partners away. I can get them done quicker.
Going to watch my year 6 Grandsons play, thinking about his singing part.

Self praise is no recommendation.

When ‘God’ designed birth for women, why didn’t ’he/she’ come up with a better idea?
As I’m not well, why do I drop everything and things go missing?

Why did nobody tell Prince Charles that his hairstyle was most unattractive when he was a teenager?

I have never seen a Chinese person in a wheelchair.

Nobody is ever old enough to know better.

Just because you are in the minority doesn’t mean you are wrong.
( I used to have that pinned up on my office door with a picture of a herd of white sheep and one black sheep turning the opposite way)

Granra2

Hear hear! I detest Royal Match ads.

Me too
They say no ads but their ads are everywhere.

knspol

Why has life become so much more difficult with the advent of all this new/updated technology that's here to help us???

Maybe because it's enabled organisations and companies to cut costs by employing fewer people? So, when there is a problem, or you have a query, your whole morning or afternoon can be taken up by being 'held in a queue' before you even get to the various options that will then take you to another queue where you will be told "all our operators are busy right now" and advised to look at "our FAQs" - none of which ever apply to your particular query or chat to a 'bot' which isn't programmed to answer your specific question...

... sort of thing.

Hear hear! I detest Royal Match ads.

Never drive faster than your angel can fly.

Don't necessarily return the favour, but always pass it forward

Never be too heavenly minded to be any earthly use.

The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earyh

i've just won £1, one pound, on the Octopus wheel of fortune free spin, for submitting my meter readings.
Yippeeee !
that's the second time this year.
i never won anything before i became an Octopus.

Sometimes setbacks can be the best thing, as they put you in a situation where something else good you weren't expecting happens, or just convenient.
If you can, when you are having a day out somewher, see if there is something else you can do in the area nearby, often I've found some really interesting places, seen some.unexpected.sights, spoken to jolly interesting people just bu having a wander round. Sometimes serendipity happens and you meet someone from your past, of all the many people.in the world rejoice in the coincidence ( or if it's someone you never want to see again walk past them without giving them a glance. I have a very few people I'd do this to fortunately)
Travelling on a bus or a train can lead to some very interesting encounters with some.fascinaring people.
If you have the opportunity to try new things seriously consider trying them. Although I'd not jump out of an airplane or bungee jump for a million pounds, we have to respect our limits
Careless talk costs lives, well maybe not.nowadays but on occasion I have solved a mystery because I know people who've known someone who has moved to the other side of the world. It doesn't.always work and some people will vanish but just sometimes...it's made.me very careful about what I say on public transport or suchlike

For those that put their phone down and misplaced it, instead of a landline can I recommend a smart.speaker
Before I had one eventually the phone would.go to voicemail which cost me.om my landline bill. If I ask my smart speaker to ring my phone it will ring it for.as.lomg as it takes me.to.find itz whether that be in the same.ro.or.im the car or down the garden. It doesn't go to voicemail and you can use of.for.lots.of other things,.if.nothingbelse you can use.it as a radio or alarm or.timer, or.clock radio.so you don't.need those other things
I do have a timer, in the shape of a chicken, but it is just for.show

fancythat

Believe in God.
It will make your earthly life a bit more bearable.
And it will save your eternal life from being in Hell.

There is no eternal life. You weren’t alive until you were conceived and you won’t be alive after you die. Religion is the number one cause of war and it’s dangerous. I don’t believe in god, and neither do you. According to multiple religions there are multiple gods and you only believe in one. So you don’t believe in god unless it’s a specific one.

Eat the frog first!

Curtaintwitcher

It's surprising how many people have one opinion in public but quite another in private.

I wonder why so many people get satisfaction out of someone doing things for them. Does it boost their egos?

People used to consult a doctor only when absolutely necessary. Now that it's free, they are at the doctors for the slightest thing.

It’s been free for over eighty years! So I don’t know what you mean? I don’t actually think it’s true anyway, lots of men avoid going to the doctor and although female I don’t either. If you are referring to pre 1946 I think you will find that many people died due to lack of healthcare. Not sure what your point is, it’s bizarre.

Love many, trust few
And always paddle your own canoe

Why has life become so much more difficult with the advent of all this new/updated technology that's here to help us???

So much like Dougal, but nose isn't as big! My dog looks like Basil Brush, little foxy snout, pleased-with -himself expression, tail-wagging identical, but he doesn't have that ghastly voice!