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Originally Posted by logtroll
It's an interesting thing, having a fundamentalist belief in God, where the natural effect should be somewhat like a dope-smoker's acceptance of things as they is -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?)

One might speculate that war is an unintended consequence of the existence of a fundamentalist's God.
All through history, intolerance has been a marked characteristic of monotheism, and the monotheistic West.
Since the monotheistic God is the Only Truth, all that "opposes" the Truth (including heretics) must be converted to the Truth, or destroyed.

"Jihadism" has been miniscule in the history of, say, Buddhism or Daoism, compared to the rampages of destruction characteristic of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.