Alan, you wrote- “My view is that schisms are often the means by which evil things have been done, but they are not the primary cause of these deeds....schisms and the evil done by those who have participated in schisms have a common root - lust for power and selfishness.
That’s a bit of a semantical game, but I’ll play along. If a schism is merely a collection of people with common interests or beliefs, and people as “individuals” can be selfish and lustful for power, then let’s extrapolate.
What acts of genocide or racism have been instigated by the “secular humanist” schism? Do we turn on the news and hear of roving packs of athiests looting and burning? Do the biologists attending a meeting of the National Academies of Science go back to their dungeon and torture proponents of “Intelligent Design”?
My point is, the fervor and mob mentality that ALWAYS accompanies a religious schism, at least in it’s genesis, exacerbates the most base impulses intrinsic in humanity.
Trying to be brief....
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