Are wars caused by religion?
The Right Way
With so many religions in the world the casual observer wonders what is right or whether to avoid religion altogether, after all religion has caused so many wars.
But is this true?
World War 2 was territorial, the German dictator was not trying to further his religion unless it was a secret plot by the catholic church, Vietnam was territorial, WW1 was also a territorial dispute. The Korean war was political, the Gulf War one and two were for reasons which may never be truthfully revealed.
Arab Israeli wars are territorial. Northern Ireland’s problems may stem from the desire to rid their country of the British but outwardly seems to be a Catholic-Protestant Conflict. Crowd violence among Celtic-Rangers soccer matches were claimed to be caused by Catholic Protestant rivalries.
So nearly all wars are caused by territorial disputes.
But look at the way religious people behave, public executions of adulterous women in soccer stadiums, people blowing themselves up believing they have a reward in the “afterlife”, and what about the way religious people take advantage of their position and abuse the vulnerable? What about so called fundamentalist extremism where people seem to become “intolerant.”
“I’ll just follow the golden rule and do unto others”
Matthew’s Gospel Chapter 7 and verse 12 has the words: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them : for this is the law and the prophets.” But from the same Gospel also came such warnings to Christ's opponents as …“Ye serpents ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ? ”
With so many religions in the world the casual observer wonders what is right or whether to avoid religion altogether, after all religion has caused so many wars.
But is this true?
World War 2 was territorial, the German dictator was not trying to further his religion unless it was a secret plot by the catholic church, Vietnam was territorial, WW1 was also a territorial dispute. The Korean war was political, the Gulf War one and two were for reasons which may never be truthfully revealed.
Arab Israeli wars are territorial. Northern Ireland’s problems may stem from the desire to rid their country of the British but outwardly seems to be a Catholic-Protestant Conflict. Crowd violence among Celtic-Rangers soccer matches were claimed to be caused by Catholic Protestant rivalries.
So nearly all wars are caused by territorial disputes.
But look at the way religious people behave, public executions of adulterous women in soccer stadiums, people blowing themselves up believing they have a reward in the “afterlife”, and what about the way religious people take advantage of their position and abuse the vulnerable? What about so called fundamentalist extremism where people seem to become “intolerant.”
“I’ll just follow the golden rule and do unto others”
Matthew’s Gospel Chapter 7 and verse 12 has the words: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them : for this is the law and the prophets.” But from the same Gospel also came such warnings to Christ's opponents as …“Ye serpents ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell ? ”