Etc.

Submitted by Paul Neubauer (Czech Republic), Jul 10, 2012 at 06:29

Pretty much all religions do this. The early Christians destroyed much of the ancient world sites and rituals. And they act on their own idols too, infamously the great castration in the Vatican Maybe there are such examples for Buddhists, but I'm not aware of them. Islam however seems to have this as an embedded doctrine. Having a religious based government will be a problem.

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