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Wednesday, February 01, 2017
Nationalism and Religion
Nationalism is religion -- or, to put it in a less-biased form, nationalism and religion are two members of the same family. Is there reason to prefer violence in the name of the former over violence in the name of the latter? (See William Cavanaugh's The Myth of Religion Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict.)
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