Why Religions Cause Wars?

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Anonymous  #345343  Fri, 30 Mar 07 03:42 PM
 Daemon wrote:
Religions have generally been used to legimate wars. That is to say, the use the religion to convince the people that the war really is acceptable. After all, with most people it takes some convincing to have them risk their to go out and kill a bunch of people they've never met. Often this just requires selective quoting, re-interpreting key parts, and the like. Sometimes it actually involves changing the religion itself. For example, in WWII the Japanese government essentially created an entirely new variety of Shinto for the purpose.

Indeed! The ultimate tool of hypnotists, marketing men, and mad megalomaniacs (often combined)!

I think it should also be understood that religion rarely represents God/s. Indeed, many many scriptures are scathing in their criricism of religion. Religion unfairly gives God/s a bad name.
  
Jhumjhum  #345729  Sat, 31 Mar 07 03:41 PM
 Religions do not cause wars, the persons who misinterpret the religion for their own purpose cause war and some people who are less reasonable and more racist follow them.
  
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Aleen  #347314  Wed, 04 Apr 07 10:18 PM
it's not religions which cause wars but some like to talk in the name of religion to get more ppl involved into their wars and support them 
  
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Anonymous  #347337  Thu, 05 Apr 07 02:11 AM
I used to get upset when I heard people criticise religion, too. Then I realised that following one's God is quite a different thing to following the man-made rules of a religion.
What do you think?
  
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