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Originally Posted by Cpl2share  More people have been killed under the auspices of religion than for any other reason. The Crusades, WWII, even most of the current wars being fought can be boiled down to religious differences. |
War is the bloody end of " Politics".
Reality is that most of the wars related to religion, were not over religious belief or doctrine, but to politics, and everyting related to the inability of man to live up to the ideals called for by religion itself. Greed, wealth, resources, land, ethnicity, race and on and on. We could list every war related to mankind and research the root causes you will find religion was the lesser of the real reasons behind them, even if religion was used to justify their anti religious actions..
Atheist cultures like The soviet union, had no problem with war and mass murder. Stalin killed more of his own people than Hitler, yet we don't talk about that. Communist regimes have routinely mass murdered others whom they suspect may have differing opinions.
Lets at least be honest, War is a result of mans inhumanity to man, not God or some image of a god, egging us on to kill one another.