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War and Religion

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For example: An example would be, a Jewish student attends a school where a majority of the students are Christian; therefore, that Jewish student could be harassed by other students for not praying the same way or not praying at all like they do. Now, say that student is atheist and a majority of the students are still Christian, then the atheist student that doesn't pray at all when prayer time is allotted, may be ridiculed for being different

War and religion have a long history together. In the Age of Imperialism, when religious convictions were very strong, every time a country would conquer another one it would enforce its religion on the people. Resistance by the people was overpowered by slaughter and bloodshed. Religion was immensely important and therefore there was immense bloodshed.

A great example of this happening in real life is the case of Ishmael Jaffree. He is an agnostic father of six children, who filed a lawsuit against the school board of Alabama after finding out that his children were being exposed to the bible and to prayer. During the course of this lawsuit, his children were

To be brief contraception will limit the spread of deadly diseases such as AIDS. In addition, it would allow population control which is very necessary in our world, which is nearing a population explosion with a bleak future.

freedom to legalize homosexual marriages, which should be a fundamental right of every homosexual.

More importantly, banning religion would add in reducing the racial tension, world wide. Many times people are judged by their religion. If I don't have a religion I won't be judged for being a Hindu. Many Muslims have felt the growth of racial tensions after 9/11, with no religion they wouldn't need to be worried. If religion were banned earlier, death of 6 million Jews could have been prevented, which happened in the Second World War. What more,

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