Do you believe that religion is the cause of most wars?

Question

If you say satan is the cause of wars please explain how satan has caused any war?

Answer 1

No. Money territory and power

Answer 2

Nope, and I really doubt that many can be proven to be. Loosely, the "wars" following 9/11 could be considered to be caused by religion but it's a rather slim claim. Korea and Viet Nam were not caused by religion nor were the World Wars. Religion, or the freedom to have, was a factor amongst many for the revolutionary war. The crusades, while at face value were religious, were caused by political factors as well.

Morale is, if religion didn't exist, wars still would.

I rank "Wars are caused by religion" at the same level of thought process as "If man evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys around".

Answer 3

Most wars are based on sheer human greed- a desire for money, land, resources, or jsut control over other people.

Trying to convince the working class to fight for your benefit does not work however, so throughout history, people have found ways to encourage the 'cannon fodder' to go into battle.

This usually means building up your side- we are right, holy, patriotic, or whatever, while demeaning the other side- they are wrong, against our god or country, eat babies, etc.

It is kind of strange- usually the powerful people who create the wars have no real interest in abstracts like loyalty, patriotism, or religion while the lower classes who will do the dying are often willing to live or die for these beliefs.

Sort fo makes you wonder which group is the true 'noblility'.

Answer 4

No, since more people have died in the name of atheistic Communism in the 20th century that all of the "religious" wars of the previous centuries combined.

Religion was actually intended to prevent violence, by teaching us to have a conscience (in the same way that government was intended to prevent violence, by giving us a peaceful way - the courts - to settle our disputes).

You might as well say that "governments" are the cause of wars, because without government, there could be no army. It is ironic that the very thing that is intended to prevent violence is often used by violent people to further their goals.

Answer 5

Yes, false religion has been behind most wars. Even the war going on right now is because of religion. Not all Christian religions follow the bible and are neutral regarding world affairs.
The Bible calls the empire of false religion "Babylon the Great" and it is propheced in Revelation that she will be destroyed. "And another, a second angel, followed, saying: 'She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, she who made all the nations drink of the wind of the anger of her fornication." Rev. 14: 8

Babylon the Great is the religious part of Satan's organization. She has "made all the nations drink" by using the wiles of a prostitute, committing religious fornication with them. She has enticed political rulers into alliances and friendships with her. Through religious allurments, she has schemed political, commerical and economic oppression. She formented religious persecution and religious wars and crusades, as well as national wars, for purely political and commercial reasons. And she has santified these wars by saying they are God's will.

Religion's involvement in the wars and politics of the 20th century is common knowledge. A classic example of the philandering of Babylon the Great is the share she had in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, in which at least 600,000 people were killed. This bloodspilling was provoked by supporters of the Catholic clergy and their allies, in part because the wealth and position of the church was threatened by Spain's legal government.

Babylon the Great is also called "the great harlot" 'Come, I will show you the judgment upon the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, whereas those who inhabit the earth were made drunk in the wind of her fornication.'" Rev. 17: 1 & 2

During Hitlers reign, the Vatican's interest in the rising power of Nazism was displayed when Cardinal Pacelli (who later became Pope Pius XII) signed a concordat in Rome between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. In his book "Satan in Top Hat", Tibor Koeves writes: "The Concordat was a great victory for Hitler. It gave him the first moral support he had received from the outer world, and this from a most exalted source." The concordat required the Vatican to withdraw its support from Germany's Catholic Center Party, thus sanctioning Hitler's one-party "total state." By the end of 1933 (proclaimed a "Holy Year" by Pope Pius XI), Vatican support had become a major factor in Hitler's push for world domination. Though a handful of priests and nuns protested Hitler's atrocities - and suffered for it. Sitting pretty in the Vatican, Pope Pius XII let the Holocaust on the Jews and the cruel persecutions of Jehovah's Witnesses and others proceed uncriticized. It is ironical that Pope John Paul II, on visiting Germany in May 1987, should glorify the anti-Nazi stand of one sincere priest.

"Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth. And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus." Rev. 17:4-6a

What will be her outcome? "The waters that you saw, were the harlot is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. And the ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will made hre devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshly parts and will completely burn her with fire." Rev. 17: 15 - 16

The political goverments of this earth will turn violently upon Babylon the Great. They will plunder her wealth. They will "make her naked", shamefully exposing her real character.
It is not the nations alone, as represented by the ten horns, that destroy the great harlot, but "the wild beast" meaning the UN itself, joins them in this rampage. Many of the 190 and more nations within the UN have already displayed, by their voting pattern, a hostility toward religion, especially that of Christendom.

"For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thoughts..." Rev. 17:17 This is God's judgement against false religion. That is why we are urged at Rev. 4: 4 "Get out of her my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues."

Answer 6

No, sin is the cause of wars - sins such as pride, greed, hatred, and jeaousy are the cause of most wars. Religion teaches us to avoid these sins, therefore religion is not the cause of most wars.

Without religion to teach us to avoid sin, there would be MORE wars.

Answer 7

I believe that many wars are fought in the name of religion, but can you think of a better way to convince people to fight til the death, than to tell them its Gods will?
People come with their own agendas.
Religion is like a hammer. You can use it to build the most beautiful house in the world, or you can use it to hit someone in the head and kill them.

Answer 8

I believe that it is actually the EXCUSE and the MEANS by which greedy leaders manage to make wars here and there in order to gain more and more power and supremacy over as many people as possible. As long as there'll be believers with shut off brains, there'll be wars.

Answer 9

No; people are the cause of wars.

Religion is just a convenient excuse for people to do what they want to do anyway. If it wasn't religion, it would be something else. Communism was a good example that was used.

Answer 10

I believe selfish people are the cause of war. Often they use religion as their excuse.

Answer 11

No, religion is simply an excuse.

greed and power are the reasons for most wars.