I think some religious groups all over the world won’t be satisfied until their particular cultures are turned back to the very beginning, before the outside secular world intruded.
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In the U.S., that would mean everybody back to rural settlements under patriarchal control. In the Mideast, it would mean back to caliphates or nomadic tribes, and of course before OIL changed everything in the region. If ISIS could get hold of nuclear weapons, I imagine they would bomb every oil field in existence they did not directly control.
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And on the secular side, the insane scramble for such things as gold (actual or stock) and other natural resources, including land, have warped the basic human values.
I think some religious groups all over the world won’t be satisfied until their particular cultures are turned back to the very beginning, before the outside secular world intruded.
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In the U.S., that would mean everybody back to rural settlements under patriarchal control. In the Mideast, it would mean back to caliphates or nomadic tribes, and of course before OIL changed everything in the region. If ISIS could get hold of nuclear weapons, I imagine they would bomb every oil field in existence they did not directly control.
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And on the secular side, the insane scramble for such things as gold (actual or stock) and other natural resources, including land, have warped the basic human values.