Originally Posted by logtroll
... -so why are so many religious fundamentalists fixated on trying to change the way things is, often resorting to force? (Perhaps there is an underlying religio/economic motivator?)

Control?

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Their deaths were like their lives, human and animal.
There were no gods and precious few heroes.
What they regretted when they died had nothing to do with
race and leader, realm indivisible,
laboured Augustan speeches or vague imperial heritage."

Hamish Henderson
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