Was there any religion involvement in WWI?

Question

I'm curious to know and need to make a half a page report.

I try looking it up on google but I got nothing.

Answer 1

Look up "Comrade in White" - the name given to a vision seen by many soldiers on the front of Christ ministering to the wounded in no-man's land.

Explicitly, religion did not seem to have anything to do with World War I. However, American and Britain still had the idea that their culture was the heritage of the Christian faith, and they had an obligation to Christianize the rest of the world. So, in many ways the War was seen as a threat to Christianity because it was a threat to their democracies.

Many ministers at the time demonized the Kaiser, and others interpreted the events as a heralding a cataclysmic Day of the Lord, in which God would bring about a great universal change. They saw the War as a cross-roads, in which the church had a great opportunity to bring positive change to the world.

At the same time, the War did a lot in ending Protestant hegemony in the West.

Answer 2

One may well ask why Great Britain is largely secular today. It stems from that time of the Great War when from the pulpits of The Church of England young men were told to go and fight for God, King and Country. There is a reason that the men who returned from that horror of gas attacks and trench warfare were called "the lost generation", for god was nowhere to be found on Flanders Fields. Add the butchery of the Holocaust a scant twenty years later during ww II, and the reason for the collapse of christianity in western europe becomes self evident.

The involovement of religion in the gennesis and the justifications for two world wars has borne itself bitter fruit..

Answer 3

Absolutely none. Indeed the Muslim Ottoman Empire was an ally of Christian Germany, Austria etc.

Answer 4

Only in the sense that both sides believed God was on their side.
During the Christmas truce of 1914, British soldiers were surprised to find that some German troops wore belts which said 'God is with us' (in German, of course!). Until then, it hadn't occurred to them that the enemy might believe God was on their side, too.

Answer 5

Both sides thought they had god on their side.
The British slogan was "For God, King and Country"
Notice the order, the country comes last.
The German slogan was "Gott mitt uns"

Answer 6

I heard something like the/a proof/scripture telling Jesus was married to someone was destroyed during the war. Personally I think that this is bull but I hope it helps you on your report.

Answer 7

no there wasnt

it started because of the assasination of archduke ferdinand

it was all about territory

all the best
Ian