First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
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Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.