wrote:

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:55:10 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:


AFAIK and history bears it out, atheists, agnostics
and people with non-fanatical religious beliefs don't
go around killing people who hold contrary views.

Didn't Stalin kill over 10 million people for holding views that were
contrary to his?

Murder is not generally considered a religious trait.



Well, murder is not the ONLY religious trait, anyway.

It isn't a trait at all, so it can't be even ONLY a trait.


But there has been enough religious carnage throughout history that it
might be reasonably called a trait.

Only by one who has no reason.

Matt