Ayodhya - Indian culture query

[Shane Mage]

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>	Another question: Is there language in the Hindu sacred texts 
>that would
>tend to inflame violence?  I always thought, naively I'm sure, that Hinduism
>was not a religion focused on earthly conquest.  Judaism, Christianity, and
>Islam all include a history of religious/ethnic conflict in their theology.
>Does Hinduism?

The Ramayana certainly reads like an apologia for the
conquest of Ceylon.  It has to be somewhere in the
ideological underpinnings of the LTTE.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64