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The semi-rigid bag of cognitive goop(jerrys@wolfenet.com (Jerome
Schroeder)), has this to say:

}There's no record of any God asking anyone to do anything.  There are many 
}records of self appointed spokesfolk claiming a divine mandate asking people 
}to do some fairly nasty stuff.

     Not only that, there simply is no need to kill, unless you or
people you are trying to protect are being killed, or are in direct
and immediate danger of being killed.  Simple fact.  However, in early
times, this was the reason for war.  Over territory.  Territory that
would be productive for a wandering tribe and such.  But, even in this
situation, the war was over power.  The tribal leaders couldn't
co-operate to the degree that both or all tribes could share the
resources.  It  would cost the leaders all or a portion of their
following.  So the solution is, right equals might.  You drive the
people away, but they  realize that they'll starve unless they can
harvest the territory, so they fight you.  Another aspect of this is,
you may be in an area, hit by hard times.  A more distant area, is
more productive.  Instead of starving, you raid them.  Now comes along
the concept of God, or Gods.  Clearly God's will would become most
apparent, when supplies are short.  So, you make up a bunch of stuff
about how bad the other people are and how they have to be wiped out.
Or, His Grace the God of War, is totally hacked off and needs
appeasement.  Now then, about the Chinese and the Spratlies......


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