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Originally Posted by HITESH SHAH

It is not only viable , it is sustainable and can thrive with right ways.

I would love there to be peace with interfaith, but I don't think it's healthy to indulge false hope or wishful thinking.

world wars were mainly fought among Christian nations with no religion involved.

The Irish situation was a religious war between Catholics and protestants. Political/national/regional/tribal wars are all fought for the same reason as religious wars. The identity complex of the religion, party, nation or other conformed identity group separates them from 'everyone who is not'. The act of identifying imposes the 'not' position on others, and thus violence is endemic to the identification itself.

So like any other thing benefit or other wise of anything depends on the user and not on the object per se . And that way rightly practiced interfaith really is not only viable but also fully functional and alive at least in this forum with great hope for future.

We can find examples where interfaith functions by excluding every example where it doesn't, but that's confirmation bias. If we look at the whole spectrum of religious identity we see non-practicing to moderate to extremes. The identity structure is essentially dual, like you are Catholic or you're not. What say ye? Us or not? Since dual identity structures are defined by polar opposites, the extreme ends are essential to such functions. The same with nationalists, patriots, left/right politics... they all have extreme ends because it's how identity structure works. When an individual identifies with the religion they internalise the identity structure and are unwittingly supporting the extreme ends. Hence it cannot work. Same reason as Nations will war, Political ideologies will clash, tribes will battle and gangs will fight.