Why do people say religion is responsible for war?

Question

That's like saying guns are responsible for war. Religion is just a tool. The motive behind it is what causes war: human boredom. The mind must stay active by any means necessary. If it cannot learn or play, it will try to control.

I still argue that human boredom causes the war not religion. Why is it that war is being waged in deserts and less modern countries where there is no technology to keep us active? Religious people won't wage war unless they were bored to begin with.

Maybe you should read Notes From the Underground. I'm not a supporter of religion but if you're going to blame a society for starting war, why not just blame them for not having widespread technology or movies and music? As I recall, people who fought in the Crusades couldn't even read the Bible because it was in Latin. They followed their kings.

Answer 1

Religions is motivation, incites hate and leads to those picking up guns, Religious wars and persecuted have been around longer than guns.

The world is forever changing. The weapons, change the borders change, the alliances change, the only constant is religion.

Answer 2

I cant agree with you. I think that Religion most definately paves the way for war. Jihad????????? Holy War??? Just take a look at todays current events in the Middle East. Religious wars happen. Face it. Its bc so many groups are unable to deal with differences that other groups pose and unfortunately some religions would like to annihilate any groups that differ from them. Its a reality. I highly doubt its boredom. But I definately believe most of it is religion and the rest of it is lack of education and willingness to accept differences.

I firmly believe that a lot of the problems happening in the Middle East today (and happened in the past) would not be going on if there were no religon.

Answer 3

It is ridiculous when people use semantics as a reason for not addressing a serious problem. Problem : hundreds of people are killed in the us every day by guns. Argument: people kill people, guns don't kill people. Solution: since you can't address the primary cause, the volatile nature of human beings, you solve the problem in the next best way, remove the tool, in this case: gun control. Point being: (to the government) people are dying unnecessarily. The solution is obvious. Solve the damn problem, Religion is a little more difficult. We have children being denied a proper education while being indoctrinated into one of a couple hundred religions, many of which promote hatred and a mandate to kill those outside their set of beliefs. If these people are in situations where their earthly existence is miserable, they pin their hopes on an afterlife, the path to which is frequently murder and carnage. A solution to the primary cause ( lack of universal education and prosperity) is a long way off and you can't take away religion because it is too great a coping mechanism for too many people. Next best thing; remove the tool; banish the hate literature, any passage that promotes the murder, torture or rape of people with conflicting beliefs, and yes I'm talking about the koran and bible for starters (point: the bible has been revised many times, who could logically argue another revision that promotes peace and tolerance by removing references to god endorsed murder, rape, torture, slavery, human sacrifice, etc. stuff your average christian is unaware of being there anyway.

Answer 4

The "More people killed because of religion!" shibboleth dates back to the Thirty Years' War, when religion was indeed a major, but not the only, dividing line in the conflict.(There were Protestant and Catholic countries on both sides of the war)

After the Thirty Years' War, nation-states began to solidify. Religious loyalties conflicted with national loyalties, and so polemicists currying favor with national leaders began to belittle religion. They depicted secular nation-state as the peace-making savior.

And those polemicists? They claimed their age to be the Enlightenment. Humble, weren't they?

Since the nation-state is still around, its founding myths are still operative. The Crusades ended more than six centuries ago. Why are they invoked today for no reason other than to scapegoat people?

Answer 5

i might ought to assert that maximum wars are started and fought over some war of words approximately faith or philosophical ideals. interior the middle a protracted time, whilst the pope inspired kings to combat the crusades, no person had any thought what the long selection outcomes may be - we are nonetheless suffering the implications of that have. Jewish people have been hated via maximum different non secular communities for a type of motives, yet quite often jealousy. back, interior the middle a protracted time, the Jews have been the money lenders. whilst somebody replaced into in debt, and did no longer opt to ought to pay the debt, some trumped up charge replaced into filed against all Jews, and fairly some have been massacred. in many circumstances kings have been in the back of this. The Jews have been expelled from Spain interior the previous due 1400's and in some places they are nonetheless being persecuted. Islam isn't the enemy, it quite is fundamentalist Muslims who're the terrorists. Islam itself is a faith of peace. regrettably, the fundamentalist leaders convince undesirable, uneducated Muslims that the Qu'ran tells them to kill the infidel. It does not, yet once you're uneducated and can't study for your self, you have faith what you're instructed. The Qu'ran does not sell suicide yet that's what those suicide bombers are instructed, that in the event that they kill others interior the call of Allah, they are going to be saved. So, finally, faith i think of, performs a ingredient in all wars. Fundamentalism, despite if Christian, Judaic, or Islamic, is risky. It does not enable for selection, and judges others, it relatively is taking part in God. Jingles

Answer 6

I'd say greed rather than boredom, but that's unimportant in answering your question.
The point is, while it is rarely religion that motivates leaders to start wars, it is often religion that convinces people to risk their lives for their leader's boredom or greed. Religion has a very significant effect on war.
And we had wars before guns, but we'd probably be better off without them. The guns, that is. And the wars.

Answer 7

Ever heard of the "Crusades" or "Jihad"? The meaning of these words is 'holy war'. They were wars fought precisely on religious grounds. Hitler's Nazi Germany was extremely religious and his attempt to exterminate Jews from the earth was religiously based. Read some history once in a while.

Answer 8

Religion is not responsible for war, The greedy power hungry government officials are responsible for war. And the ones that fight it are just sheep doing what they are told to do for the reasons stated by their government. Like this war United states is in with the middle east... US wants the middle east to join the New World Order and they don't want to . War is unfortunate. I send Light and Love to anyone reading this. What can you do today to be more like Love? Happy Holidays.

Answer 9

Yeah, but billions upon billions of people have died because of religion, so shut it.

Name one war that does not have religious connections. Just one.

Religion can also be responsible for lack of education, but that is a different story.

Answer 10

Religon plays a key part in many wars, espically ones in the Middle East. Muslims are taught to use violence if they can't convert by other means. I dont think its boredom that causes war, but humans lack of respect and understanding for each other.