{UAH} You can convince people of a lie if you do two things

By Mohammed Ghilan

You can convince people of a lie if you do two things:

1. Control their education
2. Repeat like a broken record until the lie is not questioned

An example of a modern lie is that to make a good person violent and create wars all you need is religion. Well, have a read of this 1995 essay by William Cavanaugh 👇🏽

It is important to see that the origins of civil dominance over the Church predated the so-called "Wars of Religion." As early as the fourteenth century, the controversy between the Papalists and Concillarists had given rise to quite new developments in the configuration of civil power. Marsilius of Padua had argued that the secular authorities had sole right to the use of coercive force. Indeed, he contended that coercive force by its very nature was secular, and so the Church could be understood only as a moral, and not a jurisdictional, body... Historians of this period commonly point out that religious motives are not the only ones at work in fuelling these wars. As J.H. Elliot comments, whether or not these are in fact "Wars of Religion" depends on whether you ask a Calvinist pastor, a peasant, or a prince of this period. The point I wish to make, however, goes beyond questions of the sincerity of personal religious conviction. What is at issue behind these wars is the creation of "religion" as a set of beliefs which is defined as personal conviction and which can exist separately from one's public loyalty to the State. The creation of religion, and thus the privatization of the Church, is correlative to the rise of the State. It is important therefore to see that the principal promoters of the wars in France and Germany were in fact not pastors and peasants, but kings and nobles with a stake in the outcome of the movement toward the centralized, hegemonic State.

- William Cavanaugh, "A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House:" The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-0025.1995.tb00073.x?fbclid=IwAR2L9NZiBf7yCI1M6X5i4u-hxkDGGIC5bBhqncVg03MRBBnDUMwsaq4SRdE&

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Allaah gives the best to those who leave the choice to Him."And if Allah touches you with harm, none can remove it but He, and if He touches you with good, then He is Able to do all things." (6:17)

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