all the wars and all the bloodshed in this world have been all about god and religion, so why do Christians?

Question

believe, that it is good to worship this sort of atrocity I'm from Northern Ireland and i have seen the horrors of war!
all simply because of god and religion.
if anybody can believe in a book ie: the bible, which has caused so much war & bloodshed over so many centuries and centuries,
must need there head looked at.

Now some might say it,s not god that starts war it,s people.
but these people that start these wars are religious and believe
in the bible ie: gods words.
ask yourself this how many people have been brutally killed and murdered in the name of god and religion it, must be billions and billions and billions and billions and billions over centuries and centuries.
how any body can find good in this is beyond me.
believe what you want and good luck to you all.

ok al mosko if ww2 had nothing to do religion why did Hitler kill so many jews

Answer 1

I strongly disagree. Very few of the conflicts in the world have had their roots in religion. Roughly half of the world is dominated by Muslims and Christians, and sure, in these areas many wars and atrocities have been done in the name of God or their religion, but I would say seldom BECAUSE of it. Some of them might have their very roots in atypical interpretations of the religions, but that still doesn't mean religions caused it - rather, people with violent minds choose violent interpretations of whatever religion or ideology comes in their mind (whether it be Christianity, communism, Islam, neo-conservatism or any other ideology).

In the other half of the world (including most parts of Asia, Africa and Oceania), war in the name of God or religion has been utterly rare, at least before the advent of colonialism and its Western religions and idelogies. That doesn't mean they have been peaceful, it just means they didn't choose religion as an bad excuse to wage war or oppress their people.

As someone already pointed out, religion was by no means a major factor behind the two world wars, neither behind the atrocities of the Communist-militarist dictatorships in China, Cambodia, Soviet Union, and so on.

Finally, I'm a fraid I have to disagree with you also about your own country. The conflicts in Northern Ireland doesn't have religious causes at its root. It is the rest product of Nationalist conflict between an oppressed people with newly awakened nationalistic consciousness and thirst for self-recognition and autonomy (the Irish) on one side, and proud but waning colonialistic world-empire (the British) on the other side. There were Protestants and Catholics mixed on both sides of conflicts, and even Protestant commanders on the Irish side, before the conflict was gradually "refined" into a simplistic Catholic against Protestant thing (at least nominally) in Northern Ireland during the very last decades. As so many times before, first was the conflict, about power, self-determination, oppression, resources, imperial prestige, freedom, nationalism and pride, then later it was transformed into a "religious" conflict.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It is true that many wars have been caused by religion or by religious fanatics. But was Adolf Hitler driven by religion, even though he hated the Jews? The Falklands War wasn't started by religion, neither was the war in Vietnam. Most wars are caused by the power crazy, or by those that want to enlarge their territories as with the first Gulf War, the attempted annexing of Kuwait. However, there are too many religious fanatics that would kill rather than allow other religions and these are the dangerous ones, those that try to impose their religion upon us. It must be said that Christianity is one religion that tolerates others and apart from the Crusades, I cannot remember any army going to war in the name of Christianity.

Answer 4

Too many generalities, Paddy. Just because Cromwell needed a summer place and decided to annex the 6 colonies in the north of Ireland doesn't make all wars about G-d an religion. Wars are mainly about land, cash, and power. Many idiots stick a flag on a pole and say they will follow it for G-d and country, but that's usually a ruse.

WWII was not about G-d, specifically. Hitler was consumed with megalomania and a twisted sense of his own inferiority (coming from Austria) vs. the "true" Germans. G-d, interestingly enough in this case, was the fig leaf.

Answer 5

Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense.

Truly very sorry for Northern Ireland's sectarianism, be it wearing a blue sash or a red sash, tribalism feels good cause it gives you purpose, identity and comfort -> which as an individual are hard to come by, but which are much more worthwhile once you get there.

War isn't just about God I'm sure, but when you think he's on your side, and that the next life is better than this, that you'll be massaged by a thousand virgins and all your loved ones will get an express ticket straight to Paradise - well with that idea in the heads of your soldiers I'm not surprised that wars continue.

Anybody with the sure idea that this is all we get is pretty sure to put the gun down, open a bottle with his southern/ northern, white/black short/tall, wine-and-bread/ just-the-bread-thank-you- very-much brother or sister, and make the most of this short stretch of consciousness.

i'm with you mate.

Answer 6

I would doubt that it were billions over the centuries...world population was not that high centuries ago. Not to condone crusades or anything but actually, if you look at wars fought by non-Christian nations like Nazi Germany and opressive regimes like Russia and genocide by other non-Christian nations, the deaths are overwhelmingly caused by a lack of knowledge or faith in God and a lack of respect for His laws. Abortion deaths as well are way more substantial than any deaths caused by crusades or religious beliefs....how many innocent babies have been murdered in the last 80 years...many of which were done legally. We live in a sinful world full of death....Salvation through Jesus is our only hope of escape to live in joy and happiness forever in Heaven.
Some statistics to look at....
Abortions:
29,247,142 legal abortions were performed in the United States, 1970-95. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 47 No. SS-2)
Estimated abortions worldwide: 527 Million to 836 Million (1920-2000)
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/wrjp333sd.html]
WWII war casualties...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWII_casualties
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/POSTWWII.HTM

Answer 7

Stalin comes to mind as does Communist China..Atheists have started wars and killed people..Long before Christ, people went to war. Vikings, and Huns, and Visigoths all went to war. Many of the great Generals of Rome were Atheists..they didn't believe in the Roman pantheon. Apes will war and kill the young of other apes, as well as their own kind. There has never been a peaceful society. I used to think that the Anastasie were..but archaeology is showing they did some brutal things, then ate their victims..All of history would lead me to believe that it is not religion but the basest part of mans desire for power and control, that leads to war. There is something in man, that is easily moved to HATE the "other". When you hate you depersonalise them and kill them..either one at a time or by the thousands..It is HATE we need to fear not religion.

Answer 8

If someone killed a person in YOUR name, does that mean you condone it?

Anybody can SAY they are doing it in God's name but that means nothing. It's just human hot air.

If you truly knew the hearts of those who "start wars" I think you would be surprised to see that those who do it for the wrong reasons really don't know God at all.

Answer 9

Hey BillBob...

Are you kidding... all the wars in this world have been about religion?

What world are you living on...

The biggest cause of war on this planet has been availability of resources, racial heritage and other ridiculous reasons. For every 'religious' war, there are 100 that had nothing to do with religion. Do you think WWI and WWII (the two largest conflicts in human history) were based on religion?

Man, I hope you're just a kid - because you've got a lot of learning to do.

Answer 10

now im not posting this to get complained at, but i think that all religion is not good. it segregates people into little or big groups and causes conflict. besides, in russia, when everyone is equal and led by an individual its called communism, but over here its called christianity.

I MUST STRESS I DO NOT MEAN TO OFFEND ANYONE

but yeah, religion causes dependency upon an individual or a few people. It also causes conflict because one guy thinks all creatures are equal and the other guy thinks he should have a sandwitch with the biggest bit of beef he can find.

In the end, it unites a few and ostracisces the rest.