Wars over religion

[MIAABC]

Would the world be more peaceful without religion?

[FuzzyCottonsocks]

I doubt it.  People will find something else to kill each other over.   

[Annella]

I agree with Fuzzycottonsocks!

[klkwid]

I doubt it.  People will find something else to kill each other over.   

Definitely-people would have no problem finding some stupid thing to kill each other over.  Oil, Gold, Diamonds, Money, Some other hate like race or thoughts of other types.  Humans just have a war streak in them.

[Falconer02]

Would the world be more peaceful without religion?

I think it depends on what religions you are talking about. Major ones? Damn straight. I admit this may be a generalization, but it just seems like such an easy question to answer. People would still kill each other over things that klkwid mentioned, but atleast we could erase one of those bad close-minded things that secretly spread hate.

[walksalone11]

I doubt it.  People will find something else to kill each other over.   

Definitely-people would have no problem finding some stupid thing to kill each other over.  Oil, Gold, Diamonds, Money, Some other hate like race or thoughts of other types.  Humans just have a war streak in them.

millions have been murdered over all those things....in the name of one religion or another

[rwdeese]

Would the world be more peaceful without religion?

No! Remember Stalin! He proclaimed atheism and murdered millions!

[shernajwine]

misguided, deceived, and ignorant people start wars in the name of their religion. the bible is my religion and the God of that bible said the most important commandment is to love one another. SO....not seeing where this is secretly spreading hate. and i wish people would stop putting christianity in the same grouping as islam. they ARE NOT the same, they DO NOT worship the same god and the KORAN is full of hate. I have read the koran, my dad was a muslim, born in iran..a christian convert now praise God. BUT i have a very personal perspective of how that religion does spread hate....islam says to kill infidels (anybody that says Jesus is God, or Jews, or just plain Americans) their religion does not promote peace.

but wars would exist because people (imperfect, flawed people) get an idea in their head that they believe in strongly enough to go out and kill over it. it could be anything! it just so happens (and i think a large portion of these posts would prove my point) people's faith and the attack of that faith harbors extremely strong emotions and it causes them to do drastic things to protect it.

[rwdeese]

Who comes up with this nonsense anyway. Here is only a small sample of why a war was started in the last 100 or so years. Notice how many began because of religion. The old wives' tales continue, my goodness!

 1886-1908
 8,000,000
 Control of colonial profit and power base.
 
Feudal Russia
 1900-1917
 3,500,000
(figures vary)
 Political control.
 
Turkish purges
(cross-over with the Russian struggle and World War I)
 1900-1923
 5,000,000
 Ottoman Empire collapse. Political control struggle. Islamic/ethnic factors play an important role.
 
First World War
 1914-1918
 15,000,000
 Balance of power.
 
Russian Civil War
 1917-1922
 9,000,000
 Political control.
 
Soviet Union, Stalin Regime
 1924-1953
 20,000,000
 Political control.
 
China Nationalist Era
 1928-1937
 3,000,000
 Political control.
 
Second World War

1937/38-1945
 55,000,000
 Balance of power. Expansionism.
 
Sino-Japanese War
 1937-1945
 21,000,000
 Expansion.
 
Yugoslavia
(includes WWII)
 1941-1987
 2-2,500,000
 Political control. Ethnic and religious issues.
 
Post-WWII German Expulsions from Eastern Europe
 1945-1948
 1.8-5,000,000
(figures vary)
 Post-war policies. Retributions/Soviet and Eastern European control.
 
Chinese Civil War
 1945-1949
 2,500,000
 Political control.
 
People’s Republic of China (Mao Zedong)
 1949-1975
 40,000,000
 Political control.
 
North Korean Regime
 1948-
 1.7-3,000,000
(figures vary)
 Political control.
 
Korean War
 1950-1953
 2,800,000 (figures vary)
 Political control.
 
Second Indochina War
 1960-1975
 3-4,000,000
 Political control.
 
Ethiopia
(includes famine)
 1962-1992
 1,500,000
 Political control. Ethnic issues came into play.
 
Pakistan-Bangladesh Genocide
 1971
 1.7-3,000,000
(figures vary)
 Political/economic, and social control over East Pakistan. Islam and Hindu ethnic/religious issues.
 
Khmer Rouge
 1975-1978
 2,500,000
 Political control.
 
Afghanistan
 1979-2001
 1,800,000
 Political control. Soviet expansion. Islamic issues.
 
Second Sudanese War
 1983-
 2,000,000
 Historical ethnic struggles. Islamic religious issues play a key role. Resource control and usage.
 
Kinshasa Congo
 1998-
 3,800,000
 Political control and debasement. Ethnic strife. Resource control.
 

[Falconer02]

Who comes up with this nonsense anyway. Here is only a small sample of why a war was started in the last 100 or so years.

How many of these used religion as an incentive to fight?

[Stefan94]

I think the world would be more peaceful, because some of the world's earliest wars were because of religeon. WWII is an example of a war with murder that was based on religeon of a group of people.

[rwdeese]

Who comes up with this nonsense anyway. Here is only a small sample of why a war was started in the last 100 or so years.

How many of these used religion as an incentive to fight?

Wow! That is your proof! hmmmmm...

This is an example of how those who don't believe use reason as the foundation for their "non-belief."

[rwdeese]

I think the world would be more peaceful, because some of the world's earliest wars were because of religeon. WWII is an example of a war with murder that was based on religeon of a group of people.

Really? Perhaps you have some solid evidence for this contention. Wives tales will not work here!

[jordandog]

I think the world would be more peaceful, because some of the world's earliest wars were because of religeon. WWII is an example of a war with murder that was based on religeon of a group of people.

Really? Perhaps you have some solid evidence for this contention. Wives tales will not work here!

Really? Are YOU denying the fact Joseph Stalin placed bans against the church during World War II and also imprisoned all priests? He later reversed his decision, but it cannot be denied this DID take place.

Are you also denying Adolf Hitler professed a belief in an Aryan Jesus Christ, a Jesus who fought against the Jews? And did the Holocaust then take place, but have nothing to do with religious beliefs and practices of Jewish people? Hitler wrote, and also spoke regularly, of his interpretation that Christianity was his main motivating factor behind his antisemitism.

These are but two examples, if you want more I will furnish them, but are you so pompous that you would deny religion was a factor involved in WWII?

[jordandog]

Would the world be more peaceful without religion?

No! Remember Stalin! He proclaimed atheism and murdered millions!

All accounts of Stalin's supposed 'atheism' have pretty much been discounted.  The facts point to Stalin's remaining religious, even pious, for many years longer. He believed, because of Lenin's teachings, that religion was an opiate for the Russian people and stood in the way of Communism.