2- Religion Does Not Cause Wars

Religion Causes fight. So often is this sentiment perceive in the best sellers from Richard Dawkins to Sam Harris that it has al or so do a proverb. It is said so often that race mean it without question. But, in fact, godliness does non energise war. If you be an atheist, I ask for your intellectual satin flower in evaluating this question. You have every right to believe what you will, notwithstanding we should all be h one(a)st and not sling mud where it is not warranted. Laying war at the feet of religion is on the nose not honest, warranted, clean or accurate. War is people (usu abetter _or_ abettor men) rubbish, usually for a bit of territory or desired resource.One political ships company wants some function another party has. The leader of the first party will use whatever he stick out to galvanize his entire party, usually connecting to any pigeonholing identity he can think of, which includes but is not limited to ideology, nationality, ethnicity, fell owship and yes, religion. War is dickens assemblages (of any definition, but of which the stem designation is incidental) fighting over something one has and the other wants. Blaming single religion is as incorrect as blaming only ethnic groups, ideologues, persons identifying with a certain country or class struggle.The two most destructive wars in history, homo Wars I and II both had slide fastener to do with religion. WWI was the unfortunate culmination of dangerous levels of Nationalism. In WWII Hitler utilize nationality and ethnicity to galvanize his group to take what he valued that others had the whole of europium. The millions who died under Communism were under a specifically atheistic ideology that explicitly require religion and decried it as a delusion. All wars in American history from the variationary War, the Civil War, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, and the World Wars all had absolutely nothing at all to do with religion.Ah, but the major one cited by atheists is the Crusades. Once again though, one group (this time, yes the Christians) galvanized under that group because they wanted something someone else, the Muslims, had. It is of the essence(predicate) to keep mind two things though 1) that the Christians had been in possession of the land until the Muslims seized in the 700s AD and popular opinion they were salutary taking it back and 2) that it was not incisively Christians versus Muslims. Neither Christian nor Muslim leadership was united. It was contrastive bands of Christians versus different Muslim cities and leaders.Several times during the fighting actually, Muslims would ally with Christians against their own Muslim enemies and vice versa. It was not solid Christianity vs. Islam. But regardless, the point is that it was one group missing something another group had. Yes religion was the galvanizing agent in this case, but it could have easily been something else, homogeneous Europeans versus Arabs, and in the actually fighting those identities broke downcast as people allied with whomever would be most helpful in achieving their ends. Clearly, religion was not the only thing motivating those who fought.Eliminating religion would do nothing to eliminate war. There ar so many other group identities which may be/are equally, if not more so, abused that the elimination of one, if correct possible, would have no effect on the tot up of fighting in this world whatsoever. This whole thing is not to say that group identities are problematical, just that they, like anything existing, may be abused. I would not advocate an attempt to dissolve all group ties simply because they are not inherently bad in the least and I do not believe it possible to destroy them at all.They are true, not made up or purely subjective. They are natural, are usually very uncorrupted and are part of the human condition. We desire to associate, as Aristotle and so many others have acknowledged, we are neighborly creatures. Man is a political animal. Forming groups and identities is just what we do. And those communities accommodate true expressions of self, a group self that has just as much potential difference for affirming true ideas as philosophy or science.Some may say that Europe, especially France have effectively done away with everyday religious sentiment, but does not France identity as secular just as strongly as another country identifies as religious? Secularism excessively is an identity that has just as much potential to encourage war as religion or any other identity. Communism is an all alike perfect example of that. In conclusion, there is a distorted story of history floating rough in which religion causes everything. This is actually far from the truth.So in closing, here is just a brief angle of examples of wars not caused by religion. 1. World War I 2. World War II 3. The Cold War 4. The American Civil War 5. The American Revolution 6. The Hundred Ye ars War in Europe amongst England and France from 1337 to 1453. It was over a claim to the cut throne 7. The Napoleonic Wars 8. The Rwandan Genocide (ethnic) 9. The Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta in Ancient Greece (over territory and power) 10. either Roman battle ever, such as the punic Wars against Carthage Image Source