Re: Why are we not protecting these people? Archived Message
Posted by Dr. Ray Langston  on April 4, 2011, 2:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Why are we not protecting these people?"
Posted by Liberal on April 4, 2011, 1:33 pm, in reply to "Why are we not protecting these people?"
there are 2 sides - fighting for power and control - if their side wins their religion wins.
again - thank god for seperation of church and state in this country...but anyways...
with libya - there are two sides but there is no RELIGIOUS fight. one side is that of the masses seeking a new government - and they are met by an oppressive dictator refusing to adapt and change.
I think you are reading too much into the conflict in Ivory Coast, I wouldn't see it as a religious conflict, one side supports a leader who was voted out of office in a legitamate election, and refuses to step down, and the other side wants him to leave. I think religion has little to nothing to do with this. Throughout history, conflicts may have had the veneer of a religious war, but the existing political factions were merely exploiting the faith of their supporters to gain support for a war that was fought to advance their personal or political agenda.
That, or in the case of the Northern Ireland conflict both just merely happened to be of different religious sides, one side was mostly of British descent, and wanted to be part of England (And Brits that are Christians tend to be Protestant/Anglican), and the other side were of Irish/Celtic descent (tend to be Catholic), and wanted to be part of Ireland, their true allegiance was to one government/ethnicity or another, and they concidentially came from 2 different divisions of Christianity, their religious difference camne from their cultural and ethnic differences... It was a broader part of their culture...
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