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No, non-religious groups war with the mind that they isn't a God but that's all they think about. Go figure!

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2006-10-03 08:58:49 · answer #1 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0 0

Do a Wikipedia search on the Thirty Years War.
It was fought so you can believe what you want to believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years_War
Cuius regio, eius religio is a phrase in Latin that means "Whose rule, his religion". In other words, the religion of the king or other ruler would be the religion of the people. The principle was as old as state Christianity, established in Armenia and later in the Roman Empire by Emperor Constantine.
In the Protestant Reformation, the old principle was granted new life. It was the terminology used in the Peace of Augsburg embodied in the treaty signed in 1555 between the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, to determine the religious makeup of Germany in a compromise between Lutheran and Catholic forces. The Peace offered imperial confirmation of the principle that had been promulgated in the Confession of Augsburg in 1530. The principle of the Augsburg Diet meant that the territorial princes and free cities gained the freedom to prescribe local worship, the right to introduce the Lutheran faith (the jus reformandi), and equal rights in the Holy Roman Empire with Catholic states. No agreement was reached on the question of whether Catholic bishops and abbots who became Lutheran should lose their offices and incomes, until this provision had been inserted by imperial decree.
However, the ideal of individual religious tolerance on a national level was not addressed: neither the Reformed nor Radical churches (Anabaptists and Calvinists being the prime examples) were protected under the peace. Many Protestant groups living under the rule of a Lutheran prince still found themselves in danger of the charge of heresy. Tolerance was not officially extended to Calvinists until the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.
Long before the 16th century, disparities between an official public cult espoused by the ruler and the private cult of the majority have had effects on the course of history. In Visigothic Spain, the rulers and the bishops they appointed were Arians, while most of the population had converted to Catholic Christianity in the 4th century. When Muslim raiding parties came from North Africa in the late 7th century, the Visigothic kingdoms crumbled swiftly. The disaffection of the population was a factor.
Similarly in 7th century Syria, there was little loyalty to the emperor in Constantinople, partly because of recent controversies over the nature of Christ. Syrians were treated as heretics.
It took many more dead to finally achieve the present state where each person may chose their own religion or lack of it.

2006-10-03 09:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Do you want a debate? You just publically insulted many people. Perhaps the question could have been asked with more taste. And since you have no beleifs, why are you asking this question in Reigion and spirituality, unless you are looking for a fight. I'm sorry you are so misinformed.

2006-10-03 09:01:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

a great number of the time of religious wars it extremely is one attempting to unfastened themselves so as that they are in a position to be unfastened to worship as they see in superb condition. the reason we grew to grow to be a rustic grow to be human beings searching for freedom of religion, not freedom from faith, and had to be in a land the place they could %. their very own way of worship. So each so often you may combat for something you have confidence in, or it in all probability does not propose lots to you. could God bless you.

2016-10-01 21:41:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

My imaginary friend has called for a Jihad against your imaginary friend. Prepare to be imaginarily smited.

2006-10-03 08:58:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No most religious wars have been fought over possession of land.

2006-10-03 08:56:44 · answer #6 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 1 1

I love my imaginary friend

2006-10-03 08:56:26 · answer #7 · answered by Suzie K 4 · 0 1

No, they're about power, land, and money...hummmm, kind of like every other war.

2006-10-03 09:01:50 · answer #8 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0 0

abslolutely--so when is the great big snake gonna spit out his tail and throw his hat in the ring?

2006-10-03 12:22:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no, its usually about which religion has the right to hold certain pieces of territory.

2006-10-03 08:59:11 · answer #10 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1 0

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