Blog Post. Resource list, Conflicts Ongoing. Pragmatic View. Marginalization.

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Resource List for Conflicts

1. Political succession fights. Ongoing.

• What is the backfire from negative campaigning. See://www.thisnation.com/question/031.html/. See Kings and Presidents battling to stay.
  

2. Religion-Science conflicts. Ongoing.

• Why not favor belief over fact. Many do. Believe in a stationary earth. Sure. See://beta.blogger.com/%20http://www.reformation.org/stationary-earth.html/
  

3. Religion-Religion conflicts. Ongoing.

• Reformers vs. Orthodox. Dogma wars. Nothing else. Was the Reformation reasonably successful, or did it just substitute one dogma for another. Do thinking people need dogma; or does that foster organizational purposes only. See ://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence/reformation/index.htm/..
  

Wittenberg, Schlosskirche. Martin Luther

3. The subgroups in Christianity. Protestant, Catholic.

• Germany: Example: Martin Luther, Wittenberg. In his pulpit. Schlosskirche pulpit..
  

That means "schloss" or castle, and "kirche" or church. See his writings here, at the Wittenberg Project, ://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/doc/religion/christian/NJB/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html/.

Punish and burn dissenters, bomb them in later parlance. Those of different faiths, or no faith. The Inquisition and its progeny in Ireland with the Troubles.
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If your school did not include this In the curriculum, find out yourself - ://galileo.rice.edu/chr/inquisition.html/.

5. Those outside your own faith. Rants about Jews. Heretics. Witches.

• Labels ease the responsibility for slaughter over centuries. Just relabel. Business as usual.
  

6. Overflow into politics.

• More on Northern Ireland: Troubles. Essay at ://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/landon.htm/. See encyclopedia on Godwars. An encyclopedia on religion and war. See also ://www.routledge-ny.com/religionandsociety/war/warhome.html/
  

7. Upshot. Human aspirations, human dignity.

We need to give internet access
To every believer
And every nonbeliever
And every voter
And everyone past age 5.
And every parent
In order to vet the Directors of our Lives.

We are not lemmings, are we?

8. Meanwhile,

While we enforce our ignorance, and
Watch, as fodder, the territorial acquisition.
Invasions, wars, extermination or
Enslavement of indigenous and other people:

Consider:

To marginalize may be just as bad.

Conflict may be hard-wired; but attitudes can be learned.