If the religious leaders of the world are so concerned about it...then why don't they all get together to discuss their differences and then tell their people to stop the hate?
2006-11-12 03:51:16 · 14 answers · asked by Gettin_by 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
At the outbreak of World War I, the writer Thomas Mann wrote, "Is not peace an element of civil corruption and war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?"
The bloodiest of all wars fought last century which ended up in an atomic explosion in Japan, caused much destructions in all continents except the Americas is actually World War 2. Was it Allied crusaders against German Jihadists?
The scandalous war that Americans fought in Vietnam, was it a crusade against Buddhism?
The Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 80s, a poor country with 75% illiteracy rate cannot be religious since the Soviets had no official religion.
the Falkland Wars were fought by the British to, what , uproot the Catholics of Argentina?
I think we can all conclude that most wars in the industrial and modern era are not based on religion. I suggest you google it and read about these:
* American Civil War
* Arab-Israeli Wars
* Franco-Prussian War
* Iran-Iraq War
* Korean War
* Russo-Japanese War
* Vietnam War
* World War I
* World War II
Indeed we could actually enlighten ourselves to the origins of conflict and come to a conclusion whether hatred is the real cause or a mere instrument employed in the act of war.
2006-11-12 05:52:06 · answer #1 · answered by tomQ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they WANT WARS. Wars fill the pews and fill their pockets with the money of the hard working soft thinking general public. Wartime is the best time for religious leaders. Remember man Religion is a buisness, a "for profit" buisness and the more money they make the more powerful they become, the more power they have the more wars they can start, the more wars they start the more money they make.... Its a vicious cycle and it never ends unless people will oneday wake up and throw their religious teachings by the wayside and let peace have a chance to exist.
2006-11-12 03:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by silentbob_151 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How about wars like between the Bloods and the Crypts? Not based much on religious beliefs. There's wars and rumors of wars, not all based on religion.
2006-11-12 03:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by Red neck 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Based on your argument, how was the American Revolutionary War based on religion, Vietnam War, World War II, World War I, American Civil War, French Revolutionary War. Need I go on and on.
Maybe some wars are based on religious division, but not all. So please don't generalize and blame religion as the source of hate. It's not religion, but people unwilling to resolve differences between them.
2006-11-12 03:54:29 · answer #4 · answered by Searcher 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many wars are NOT based on religion. Ever seen a war based upon taking another's natural resources?
2006-11-12 03:52:21 · answer #5 · answered by CJ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because many of the religious leaders are under the influence of Satan...
John 8:44:"YOU are from YOUR father the Devil, and YOU wish to do the desires of YOUR father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of [the lie]"
They may belong to the empire of false religion, spoken of in the Bible as "Babylon the Great", the end of which is near.
2006-11-12 04:02:28 · answer #6 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
and lose out on all that money? I think if there was a God and she/he came down to Earth we would go to war over ownership of God.
I don't think religion is the true reason for War, it is an excuse, the true reason is ownership. Be it oil, land, gold and so on.
2006-11-12 04:02:24 · answer #7 · answered by touristonearth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is time that most of us begin to at least comprehend our overall effect. With few exceptions we, each of us are negatively effecting, all that surrounds, not just our own, our selves and not just each other. Yet this is happening because most of us cause it too. Don't blame church, religion, dogma, politics or economic sway. We as a whole inflict upon a blue, white and green organism. Claim it as ours alone. Most fail to commune and call it religion. Most fail to balance and call it commerce and most fail to relate and call it government. Collectively we fail to adapt and call it civilization.
2006-11-12 04:02:10 · answer #8 · answered by richardnattress 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they see it as a war between good and evil where they have to triumph in the name of God. Sadly, its a war between two evils
2006-11-12 04:00:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yougoslavia that was a religios war and the are some in africa and hitler religion is the worst thing on the planet and the crusades all three of them
2006-11-12 03:56:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋