Many times in history and even now in the present times, God's name has been abused and used in the furtherance of human greed. In God's name, indigenous people's have been slaughtered. In God's name, wars have been launched. In God's name, blacks and women have been enslaved. In God's name, creation has been desecrated. The most powerful and the most convenient argument if you want to do something bad and you want to justify it is to say that it is the will of God. Thus the very evil that you are doing becomes good and even sacred so that wars for greed and conquest become religious wars. Wars for oil in Iraq and Afganistan become "Christian wars against babylon" or in whatever way it may be packaged to give it a "sacred" mission...Even politics makes use of religion to further ambition. In the end, God's name is used in the furtherance of evil. How sad!
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