re: #98 Naso Tang

In the West? //

I don’t know enough about the indigenous cultures of the Americas, or Africa, or SE Asia, to be confident to say that sectarianism (as we understand it) was a driver in their conflicts.

In NE Asia I do not believe that (formal) religious beliefs played a central role in their warfare. The Mongols, the Han, and those who came to be known as the Koreans and Japanese certainly had their own bloodthirstiness, but I can’t pick any particularly religious wars from memory.