In the 'Old World' Chinese believed that death brought a gradual return to the cosmos, while the Romans, Arabs and Greeks thought that death allowed one to reach a more definitive plain (e.g. ... In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to t...

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I do not think a church is a place of battle. ... I think using the church as a place to hide or blow up is kind of like in the Bible where merchants started selling things in the house of God, using it for the wrong reason Jesus was displeased with that because his fathers house is a place of worship, not selling things, and defiantly not battle. ... In the Old Testament when Abraham sinned with his wife, handmaiden God said that Ishmael (Palestine) and Isaac's (Israel) nations would always fight over whose land it was. ...

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In the Qu'ran, the Islamic old testament, there is a line that is famous for encouraging violence, it reads "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out...and fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah and worship is for Allah alone.... This time, it was the Christians that started the battle. ...

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