about money, natural resources, population control, domination and supremecist idealogies. Don't you think the King just uses his pawns in order to win and religion is just the way he gets the pawns to sacrifice themselves?
2007-03-23 02:59:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Oh yes it is exactly the way you see it.
Religion has nothing to do with war except that it helps reduce the horrible fall out.
God did not divide the land into countries or provinces. There are no Geography lessons in any of the religious texts. No religion ever asks for your brother's or your neighbor's blood.
Religion seeks to promote humanity and enrichen life while war weakens humanity and kills lives.
2007-03-23 03:48:08 · answer #1 · answered by smartobees 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What war you are talking about? But anyway, religion is also a kind of ideology. The problem is when the religion is used in politic or trying to insert the religion rules into the basic law or sometime wanted to replace the basic law with the religion rules, then it is not any religion anymore, then it becomes an ideology is like any other ideology for examples: Nazism, Communism etc. And if this ideology want to be implemented specially in a totalitarian way, it is dangerous. As everyone knows that in the religion contains some dogmas which one has absolutely to accept it without doubt, then it is kind of totalitarianism. Religion should be in the place of private things. Religion should not mingle in the basic law or constitutional law of a country, specially when there are so many different of religions in the world. So the war which is going on like in Iraq or Afghanistan is all about war against the totalitarianism of islam's ideology.
2007-03-23 03:36:51 · answer #2 · answered by ninka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's easier to make a problem as straightforward as "religion leads to war" when really, you're right. If we acknowledged the actual problem, we would have to deal with a variety of issues, and realize that it's going to take time to fix the situations that arise.
But really, religion can be a great thing, and I personally am religious also. However, religion is very powerful, and is very often the means to an end. I'm all for unity, but why should people sacrifice themselves when obviously, the ultimate sacrifice has already been made?
2007-03-23 03:10:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. subculture does. That pronounced, many faiths traditionally have been infused with the subculture. maximum in recent times are not, yet some are. i will supply an occasion: The Crusades. The cultures between Muslims and Catholics clashed, Muslims attacked help stations, Catholics spoke back by ability of sending knights on over to take each little thing. The Bible says to no longer do this, however the subculture became one that became ruled by ability of conflict (maximum of people who went have been retired squaddies). So the religion became violated by ability of the subculture and became made a factor of that subculture. the only time a faith might reason conflict is that if that faith can not exist in any subculture. Buddhism would be everywhere and not reason issues, and clearly it hasn't led to wars. Christianity is a similar. cutting-side Catholicism, and greater cutting-side religions are additionally a similar. Islam isn't because of the fact it itself is a theo-political society. that is only history. A conflict isn't approximately faith or perhaps own opinion. that is approximately greed and ability.
2016-10-01 09:07:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course war is really about all these practical things like population control, domination etc. But try getting the populace seething and up in arms about things like that.
"They just use religion as an exuse to be really crappy to each other."
2007-03-23 03:18:19 · answer #5 · answered by K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋