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Why does anything affect people in different ways? What a stupid question.

>>5839744
if i could find one of those pictures of the two fish looking at a hook and making a comment about the nature of the lure, i would be posting it right here

>>5839754
But it's not bait. I'm asking how you can have a core text, and different people take such different things out of it, not just violence and peace, but all sorts of contradictory, but strongly held beliefs.

>>5839763
does it really need to be said?
it's because most religious people are idiots

>>5839770
That's not a very good explanation. How do you determine whether or not they're idiots? By how much they deviate from their text? But is pacifism a deviation as well, and make you an idiot? And what makes your understanding of the text so superior to everyone else's?

All human behaviors are heritable.

So many people mistake religion for the cause, when it is, of course, the effect.

1) You have violent asshole genes
2) Use your religion as justification for being a violent asshole

It's wrong to think these islamic terrorists would be peaceful people if only there was no islam. Islam is secondary for their need for violent conflict.

Genetics.

>>5839792
> All human behaviors are heritable.

wut

tfw no bf

Most of feeling of divine imperative is actual, they just aren't all from the same God. Terrorists, for instance, are probably impelled by Ares. When you try to say they're all serving one God, of course it will be confusing.

>>5839744
That's pretty hot
nohomo

>>5839855