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Originally Posted by cheebacheeba
I don't know about this...many conflicts have arisen on account of belief systems being challenged or opposed by others.
Just IMO, this would only be correct if there happened to be some kind of universal religion. Which there never will be.
That said, who knows - we've never (at least not for a LONG time) lived in a time where there has been one religion, or no religion.
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Even if there were one world religion, there'd still be plenty of different approaches and interpretations to that religion, and still plenty of conflict. It's the relative subtleties within and between religions that cause a lot of violence. It's the difference between peace and jihadism, for example.
Emo Phillips has a great bit related to this, actually: