Do you find it amusing how people believe for World peace! and its religion which causes war?

Answer 1

I find it amusing that people are concerned about the issues of the whole world and neglect their own integrity.

Answer 2

Dang, I hate it when someone else beats me to writing what I was going to write. In this case, Samwise pretty much said it all. Though I do find it amusing that he quoted CS Lewis, a noted xtian apologist.

Religion itself may have only caused a handful of wars, but it has been a strong catalyst for many others. The mindset of the religious crusader is, "We can have world peace if only everyone believed as I do." Then, any act can be justified which results in the conversion or elimination of those who do not believe as he does.

And sometimes, even merely being in the presence of non-believers is enough to damn you. Some religious zealots would condemn us all because of the modern culture or homosexuality practiced by a few. (Cf. Fred Phelps for an extreme example.) This happened even in the Crusades: "Kill them all; for God knoweth them that are His." — Arnaud-Amaury, Abbot of Citeaux, 1209, response when asked by the Crusaders what to do with the citizens of Beziers who were a mixture of Catholics and Cathars.

Answer 3

Religious differences, and the refusal to make allowances for them, does underlie some wars. Religion is probably more frequently used as a means of gaining the propaganda leverage to support a war; that is, the religious basis is not the primary motivation of those creating the war.

There are a number of different notions of "world peace." While I do believe that a species of order could be imposed by force, I do not believe that could legitimately be called a "peace."

Peace requires respect for others and the accommodation of differences. A forced uniformity is unjust, and there is no peace without justice.

There's no peace without mercy, either, for that matter. Take any single value and overrate it, and you make it a corrupting influence. Quoting one of my favorite authors:

"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials 'for the sake of humanity,' and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man."

Answer 4

Religion doesn't cause war, politics and money does. And religion gets pulled in as a justification. All of the major religions have a central message of peace and tolerance. It just gets corrupted by human darkness.

Answer 5

Religions are only an excuse, a way of getting people to follow a lead. If you had no religions the leaders would find some other excuse to unite people into fighting for whatever cause they were trying to win. It is usually power, wealth or land. Wealth and/or land give you power so ultimately it is about gaining power.

Answer 6

I would have to make the point that 'religion' does not cause war...nor does it cause peace. In reality, religion itself doesn't cause anything, nor can it ever cause anything.
Man causes war. Man causes peace. Man causes religion, for that matter.
Zealots, whether they be zealous for power, revenge, wealth, or anything else, use religion as just one of many different means of spreading their own personal toxicity to a mass of sheep who will follow the zealot to death and destruction.
It matters not what mask Man's darker nature chooses to hide itself behind. It remains man's darker nature that is the root of conflict and war.
I do not know as amusing is the adjective I would apply to this uniquely human phenomenon. I suppose I mostly consider it nauseating that the paradox that is humanity seems perfectly incapable of acknowledging its own paradoxical nature and is thus bent on destroying its 'other' which, in all reality leads to the destruction of itself because its 'other' is its 'self'.

And so ends another 'Rant by Chance'...(He laughs somewhat bitterly at himself and at all)

Answer 7

Dear,

Religion is always at fault as it seems, I beg to differ here. It is like arguing that guns kill people, the truth however that unless and until the trigger is pulled, no gun could harm a cucarachas let alone people.

Same goes with religions, people interpreting religions, people manipulating religions to control the masses sees fit that in using it to gain wealth and power over their dominions.

Peace for them means coexistence with others, and that will put their hold over the masses at risk. Because people will see how life moved on from the last millennium and the one before it.

Keeping people stuck in fable issues will ensure the supremacy of the Shamans, priests, rabies and Imams. And that will never happen –if they could help to instigate the people to be in constant struggle and in fear where their influence would grow and flourish.

Regards,
KC

Answer 8

Amusing IS the right word! Yes it amuses me all the time.
We are surrounded by nature that is in perfect balance, and here they come, trying for imbalance!
Simply, if there is +, there naturally is - as well.
Love - hatred, war - peace...
There are other reasons for war beside religion. y´know.

Answer 9

People kill people not religion, if you disagree with a belief fine but lets not go assigning responsibility to religion when it is human behavior that causes the grief. It would be like saying money causes war lets get ride of money or guns kill lets get ride of guns, none of the solutions will work because the true fault lies in people.

Answer 10

Religion does not cause wars, people cause wars. Religion is just a red herring.