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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 818649" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>That's the point I was making.  The religions of the world are vast enough and contain enough imagery so that those feeling oppressed and downtrodden can co-opt them to evil ends.  Nowhere did I come even close to suggesting that religion "was the problem."  In fact, I think it more likely that it is the solution.  Find the most desolate and oppressed areas of the world and you find a land fertile for terrorism.  Toss in a foul form of a  millitant religion and watch what happens.  Is it any wonder that communist countries all but out-lawed religion for decades?  Or for that matter that Rome made a spectacle of torturing to death religious zealots of all stripes that did not acknowledge Cesar's primacy?  Is it  hard to see why Marx called religion the "opiate of the masses"?</p></blockquote><p></p>