RIP

[Sarmatian]

RIP.

Pavle was a man of peace and tolerance, always advocating against violence and hatred. I'm not a religious man, for all I care, organized religion may go to ****, but I respected him. He was a good Christian.

His possible successor will probably be a hard-liner but the influence of the church in Serbia is really minor, one of the few good things left over from communism. It may affect some domestic issues but it won't be important enough to spill over the borders, so to speak. It won't affect foreign relations in any way.

But according to Dawkins, there would have been no conflict in the former Yugoslavia if it wasn't for the Catholics/Orthodox/Muslims killing each other because of their faiths...

Ironically, it was nationality, not faith. In general religion doesn't play important role in former Yugoslavia. It's more of a new thing for nationalists, something that reaffirms their nationality, Serb/Orthodox, Croat/Catholic, Bosniak/Muslim. People in Serbia screaming in agony over Albanians destroying holy places in Kosovo didn't lift a finger to do something when those places were left to rot during communism.