Why Religions Cause Wars?

Since the history begins, we study that more than world's 95% wars are caused by religions. It is religion that preach and thus create wars against other religions like Judism agains Islam, Islam against Chiristinity, Christinity against Hinduism and so on. Present day wars (Islam's war on Kufar, Osama's war on U.S and America's war on terrorism) are also fruit of religious hatred and prejudice which are destroying the humanity.

I think all the religions have created to enslave other people and get power. What do you think and why?

Islam against Kufar? the Kufar were against muslims come on they were asking for wars therefore muslims fought them! Kufar was kicking them out of their homes that's why those wars happened but not becasue of religion

i don't think the main reason is religion but it may sound like a war between religions or people get advantage of religion to attract more people into their wars (while they have certain goals far of religion indeed) that we would have to defend our own people but mainly the reason is to take lands occupy them take their fortunes nothing more if people did really care about religion and made wars because of them they wouldn't have done it as long as all religions don't ask fro wars but a better life

I strongly agree that most wars have been caused by religion. I Iblame the religous leaders that influence politics. Whether they are muslim leaders or catholic leaders.

Very few wars religions were caued by religions. Wars generally are caused by things like greed, vengeance, intolerance, resource inequalities, and dozens of other such factors.

If religion caused war, then the entire planet would be in more or less perpetual bloodbath.

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.

Daemon wrote:

If religion caused war, then the entire planet would be in more or less perpetual bloodbath.

Well, there is one country which has been constantly waging wars and creating bloodbaths, without interuption, for over one hundred years.