do you think it's true that religions have been the cause of most wars in history???

Question

I forget who said that, but I think he was right. Any religious tyoes out there in denial ??

Answer 1

"Power" over people is the cause of Wars. The religious organizations happen to be just one of the power mongers.

Answer 2

Not so much religion as people's interpretations of their religions. George W. Bush is, in his mind, a Good and Holy Christian trying to convert the Muslim heathens and bring them God's Democracy (even though... Jesus technically preached communism...) so the war in Iraq has religious origins -- but George Bush's religious origins.

Remember that a religion is a combination of a myth, which in anthropology is a story (true or not) that interrelates man, nature, and god, with a moral code. A religion cannot take action - it is an ideal, it is a principle, a system of thinking.

How people enact their religion is entirely up to them as individuals. Do not hold it against all present Christians that a few in the Medieval Ages were Crusanding tyrants. Do not hold it against all Muslims that a few extremists are terrorists, or you have to condemn all Christians too (Ireland ring a bell to anyone?). Acknowledge the role the religion played in the person's mind but remember that the PERSON is responsible for HIS/HER actions, the religion itself is not.

Answer 3

Well, the 30 years war was definately a religious war (protestants vs. catholics). World War I & II were supposedly based on power struggles for oil domination. Hitler, of course, had his own agenda, so you can make an argument for ethnic cleansing. Vietnam was about oil and communism. Iraq was and is about oil.

Before and during the industriall revolution I guess it was about gaining territories and building empires or establishing a national identity.

The war between brits and spain in 1588 was about who would dominate new world occupationa and trade.

Obviously the crusades were about religion.

Bottom line is that some wars were ignited by religious differences but overall they seem to have been based on economic opportunities.

Answer 4

No actually war can be directly traced bake to one woman per war. Example the great american revoluation can be traced back to a woman named Martha Washington who ripped off recipe from English Lords of Danes mistriss. Well you know the rest eggs Benidect Arnald. Today we just call them eggs benidict. Like wise the War between the North and the South was caused by a woman who was fighting over the proper use of slaves. The northern woman was using her slaves as modles for fitting dresess. Her husband moved to the south and took the slaves with him. As a result the woman being deterbed divorced him married a man by the name of Aberham Lincon . Then she got elected to the office of president and declared war on he ex-husband and got the whole nation to go with her to prove her point. His ex-husbands name was Andrews Jackson. That is why it took almost 125 years before black people broke into runway modleing. These are just to versions of modernest revision histroy. Actually we know for a fact that Wars are caused by foolish people period.

Answer 5

I like to look at a little bit deeper than religion, get down to the real "who's" in all wars.
Religions don't cause wars, there is nothing wrong with religions and different religions co-existing.
Men have caused all the wars and then will eventually completely destroy this planet and kill us all.

Answer 6

yes, i think some of the major wars in the world was caused by religion.

Religion can do so much even if it will cause one's death. Because they believe so much in their religion, they tend to sacrifice their own lives just to prove that they are the ones who are telling the truth. A small argument that lead to a war.

Answer 7

I think a lot of wars have been made (wrongly) in the name of religion, but I think more have been over property. The French, English, Civil War, Japan/China, and many, many others have been done in the name of land and power and probably moreso than in the name of religion.


That's not to mention the millions of people that have been killed in the name of Communism. China and the former USSR have killed more of their own citizens than all of the wars combined before them.

Answer 8

Perhaps the number of religious wars may be more, but if you talk of volumes world war one and world war two were not caused exclusively by religion

Answer 9

Even if you go back to tribes. They have stories of their creation. Their god made them and everyone else from other villages were sub-human. Even went through Europe. Remember what they thought the first time they saw the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Africa? Religion causes many problems.

Answer 10

I am an Atheist, and I can assure you that although religion is cited as the reason for these wars, the real motivators are power and money. If religion were gone tomorrow, we would find new reasons to kill each other.