2006-10-28 16:48:51 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i didnt ask if there would be no more wars, i asked if there would be fewer wars.
2006-10-28 16:59:23 · update #1
Over 400 Years of Civil Wars in Christian Europe:
Roman Civil Wars (68-394) 45 years
Byzantine Civil Wars (1094-1355) 30 years
German Civil Wars (1077-1411) 66 years
English Civil Wars (1138-1646) 25 years
Hungarian Civil Wars (1301-1321) 15 years
Bohemian Civil Wars (1390-1471) 38 years of wars between Kings and nobles of Europe
Russian Civil Wars (1425-1921) 40 years
Swiss Civil Wars (1436-1450) 14 years
Portugese Civil Wars (1449-1827) 5 years
Polish Civil Wars (1454-1466) 13 years
Austrian-Netherlands (1477-1492) 15 years
Italian Civil Wars (1494-1530) 18 years
French Religious/Civil Wars (1562-1598) 36 years
Northern Europe (1655-1721) 26 years
Danish Civil Wars (1737-1757) 20 years
Northern Ireland (1969-1995) 26 years
Over 100 Years of Religious Wars Amongst Christians:
Roman Empire/Papal Holy Wars (1081-1250) 23 years
Albigensian Papal Crusades (1208-1229) 21 years
War of the Eight Saints (1375-1378) 3 years
Wars of Religion (1562-1598) 36 years
Bohemian-Palatine War (1618-23) 5 years
Thirty Years’ War between the Churches (1618-1648) 30 years
Over 1700 Years of Christian Crusade Wars in the Middle East (1095-1272)
Over 1,000 Years of Wars by the Christian Powers of Europe:
Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars (755-1265) 91 years
Viking Raids (793-1079) 200 years
Franco-Austrian, Burgundian, German, Chinese, Prussian, Spanish Wars (978-1885) 40 years
Scandinavian Wars (1026-1471) 27 years
Anglo-Scottish Wars (1079-1560) 34 years
Anglo-French Wars (1109-1628) 83 years
2006-10-28 16:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, communism is atheist, and they fought each other in Southeast Asia after the Viet Nam war, with a much higher rate of casualties and KIA than in Iraq today. The Old Soviet Union and the Peoples republic of China fought for a long time along their border, but we never heard much about it in the news. There will be no more Communist countries left after the year 2020. There may be socialist, but very few.
2006-10-29 00:08:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor RossML thinks the crusades was a religious war. Man, you need to study history.
Without religion there would be nothing to keep every person from wanting and taking what they want by force. All Free Governments are based on Biblical principals, so you would have to do away with all laws that protect citizens. Would that be a better place? I think not.
2006-10-28 23:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War appears to be deeply embedded in the human psyche. War can be between two or two-billion.
The only relevance of Religion on the fighting of wars is that religious wars are fought over intangibles and beliefs rather than power and material ownership.
2006-10-28 23:56:16 · answer #4 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that answering this question is factually possible, although you will receive many opinions. The world has had at least some religion in almost all of its regions for almost all of human existence. Speculating on what would have occurred had religion never arisen is equivalent to trying to imagine how human beings might have functioned if we had never developed a pancreas.
2006-10-28 23:54:12 · answer #5 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
I think religion just happens to offer a wonderful excuse to engage in war. However, that which makes humans violent and warlike is hard-coded into us. Even if the entire planet were atheists, people would still find reasons to attack each other [racial conflict, patriotism, squabbles over resources, etc.]
2006-10-28 23:54:32 · answer #6 · answered by Lunarsight 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even if no religions existed, people would still be greedy, power-hungry beings. Let's be realistic.. wars are almost inevitable these days. Religions actually set boundaries and rules in the way people fight.
2006-10-28 23:54:57 · answer #7 · answered by Mawarda 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No because not every war is fought over religion or matters backed by religion. Wars are fought from egos. One person's insistance that they are right in a any sense, and have the right to be so.. while denying another's right forcefully.
2006-10-28 23:51:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely not. Until man evolves far beyond where he is today, he will always find a reason to go to war.
2006-10-28 23:55:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most religions teach that it is not right to kill. Some teach it is OK to kill under certain circumstances. Religion is nothing more than spiritual laws. I wonder what life would be like without ANY laws. If there were no laws against killing, the world would be a much more violent place.
2006-10-28 23:50:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋