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I like the sentiment, but might I point out that the early inventors of television believed that it might end war by showing the great similarities between peoples and nations.

And that from domestic violence to wars, we tend to fight those who are next-door, closest to us in mind body and spirit.

(If you are not too sure about that, think how easily a rural Shinto Chinese would be able to explain the vast differences between Christianity and Islam)



Shinto Chinese?


Yeah that was dumb of me. I may have been thinking Shenism, but I am sure there are some Shinto Chinese.

Anyway the point I am making still holds I think - you can barely squeeze a credit card between Islam and Christianity if viewed from a distance - yet billions are on the edge because of the "vast gulf" between the religious




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