Maybe if we scrapped religion all these wars would never happen.
2007-04-16 03:06:50 · 70 answers · asked by melvyn c 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes
2007-04-16 03:08:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would rather believe that if their has no religion more wars will happen in this world. Don't blame that all the wars is cause by religion, because usually religion is the most unifying institution of all. Scrapped that religion--- the molder of good characters, that endorses us to have faith, hope, love, forgiveness, humility, etc. would lead the world into a worst scenario if it does not exist. What would be the ethics of the people, who will remind about the morals? There would be no fear of killing people; to fight other is just okay. Only religion has penetrated much on the character of the person to become a good citizen and good people that the Laws of men cannot do to execute alone. If happens that we all just all Laws of Men, in my case, i would assume that, it would just good to do bad if nobody has caught me doing. Anyway, there has no such as Supreme Being, or God (taught only by religions) that really take a watch of my action. See, don't you think that the Law of man can handle that way as the religion does. The only way that the Law can do is to become rude. If that happened, this will burst out into a rebelion, and rebelion always starts a war in many cases. That is just an out-of-religion scenario. So, my point is, religion is not all the factor of wars in this world, as to consider that two atheist could fight each other for some other thing, aside from religion.
2007-04-16 04:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that it is religion that causes wars, I believe that it's people who do. We, as human beings, could have the most perfect system and mess it up. Perfection has only been reached by one person. The rest of us strive but fall short. Because of our shortcomings, we mess things up.
Religion is a concept that people sometimes twist to their own use and ideas. As perfect as the system may be, we will find some way to mess it up and that is why there are wars. I'm sure that if more people actually lived their religion then wars would be a lot less widespread.
2007-04-16 03:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by GoatGirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel that religion plays a big part in the majority of people's lives. Sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. I think that when two or more religions clash, thats when disagreements begin. There are so many different faiths and each one thinks their way is the right way. In my opinion some wars appear to have started because of this.
2007-04-16 03:28:29 · answer #4 · answered by d16run 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How naive to say 'all the wars', and even more so to think that problems will disappear if religion did. Wars were caused by extremists. Religions mostly promote peace, and if I say that, I refer to the Muslim faith too.
But what annoys me even more about this statement I've seen about 20 times on this site is that people don't see the mountains of good things religious people have done and are still doing. Think Mother Theresa and Ghandi to name only two. Is it because religious people don't blow their own horns? The Bible teaches that your right had shouldn't know what the left hand is doing, so people who are sincere in their faith do it quietly.
2007-04-16 03:15:45 · answer #5 · answered by Amelie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm happy to disagree with you, religion is not the cause for ALL wars, only some have any link to any form of religion.
I had a look on Wikipedia for wars starting between 1900 and 1945, of the 64 wars in that period:
6 were clearly religious in origin
3 were unclear (nationalism dressed up as religion)
55 had no clear link to religion
14.1% of wars in that period had a clear link to religion.
85.9% of wars in that period had no clear link to religion.
2007-04-16 11:29:22 · answer #6 · answered by Nebulous 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if you can honestly say all wars. However it can definately be said that religion causes most wars. I think we'd still have conflict even without religion but that conflict would be expressed in different ways.
I would be in favor of scrapping religion however. No big loss there!
File God under a BAD IDEA that has been tried and failed to produce postive results!
2007-04-16 03:14:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are plenty of wars that occurred as a result of something other than religion. Hate and intolerance are what needs to be scrapped.
2007-04-16 03:14:43 · answer #8 · answered by Lifted by God's grace 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Holy War as they are sometimes called only seem to happen between Northern Ireland and Ireland,Israel and Palestine.
And the racism that goes on in school i say yes to no religion.
2007-04-16 21:04:15 · answer #9 · answered by Verrell H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because the people who start the wars have a religion doesn't necessarily mean that that religion was the cause.
Actually, I'd like you to name one major conflict in the last 200 years that was started over religious differences.
I'm sure there must be one, but if you compare the number that were to the total number, the ratio would be very low.
2007-04-16 03:11:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
NO religion is the excuse for all the wars in the world. The real cause is power hunger. Whatever power someone get they will always want more
2007-04-16 09:06:36 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋