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>The American Religion of Violence  - Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell
Very interesting article. I don't know a lot about American civil war. But I certainly wonder why American religious people are so aggressive. This link between patriotism, the flag, religion, Jesus coming, a feeling of moral superiority and a crusade to spread the world. Now I understand it much better.

I'd like to know which one of the candidates, Trump or Hillary, is more close to the puritanist ideas of spreading wars through the world.


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Beginning of the headline :Laurence Vance has coined the word “warvangelical” to describe so-called evangelical Christians who are obsessed with supporting all of the state’s wars and all of the death, destruction, and mayhem that they entail.  They ignore the ancient just war tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, among others, and simply support all war and all military aggression – as long as the U.S. government is the aggressor. These are the people who booed at Ron Paul when he reminded them at one of their conventions tha... Read More
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