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=**Religion**=

[|Children in the United States 1937, playing a game of war]

"[Violence] ..not Christianity, is the real religion of America, Violence is the ethos of our times, It is the spirituality of the modern world. It has been accorded the status of a religion, demanding from its devotees absolute obedience to death. Its followers are not aware, however, that the devotion they pay to violence is a form of religious piety. Violence is so successful as a myth precisely because it does not seem to mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It is what works. It is inevitable, the last and often the first resort to conflicts." (Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Powers. (Minneapolis, Fortress Press. 1992))

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