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Found this post in an IMDB Beowulf forum. He's arguing against somebody who claimed Beowulf has "anti-Christian" themes in it, and someone posted a rather enlightening & inspiring thought on religion as a whole:  

Both Muslims and Christians have died for what they believe in - I kind of believe that's nothing but fanaticism. There is no logic in thinking that one religion should be more "believable" than another just because it has more followers. Christianity has most definitely had a rather expansive history, with colonization and crusades, while for instance Hinduism and Judaism aren't missionary religions, and therefore don't work as hard on "saving" people. (Or make them choose between the cross and the sword as the Christians did to the Muslims during the crusades).

A lot of old cultural treasures in Scandinavia were destroyed when Christianity arrived, so that it could be the ONLY religion. Of course when we later shifted to protestantism, they burned the catholic stuff. It's all p.r. If people want to believe in God, or whatever they feel like, it's fine by me, but one can't use physical evidence to prove the righteousness of faith. The point of having faith is that one should exercise it even without proof, right? I always saw that as the beauty of it. As soon as you start using history as some kind of proof, you'll end up noticing that people will behave the way they always have - selfish and greedy after power and money. God has nothing to do with it. Both Christianity and Islam are beautiful religions with a message of love though, so I hope all those believers out there starts actually READING their Bibles and Korans and starts to love each other a little more. Then maybe that particular part of history won't have to repeat itself.

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