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Inside Man: Morgan Spurlock gets churched

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Re: Inside Man: Morgan Spurlock gets churched

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The phrase "so much conflict" does not imply "the main cause of conflict".
I said it was a melodramatization when compared to other international ills and at the same time I acknowledged that in places where conflict exists it is due to fundamental extremism.

The Israel/Palestine conflict is partly motivated by religion; I doubt anyone claims it is entirely motivated by religious differences.
That might be a small part of the conflict. Actually a very small part.

You're welcome to setforth what the conflict is primarily about. I'm all ears.
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Poverty
Enormous wealth disparity
The national deficit
Military involvement in foreign countries.
Pollution (although we are getting better)
Racism.
I inadvertently left out gender and sexual orientation discrimination.
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finally got around to watching it, enjoyed it.

the condemnation of gays was interesting from Morgan's perspective.

laughed at the story at the end about the "fundamentalist atheists" who complained they weren't "not believing in god" correctly.

no true scotsman och aye!
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