Why is the world going towards religous wars?
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It's always been this way since the dawn of creation. People become emotional over religion. It's one of those hot button topics that will always be. Rather than fighting over religion, I wish everyone would be happy everyone has their own beliefs and respects that.
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i don't know.\n \nalthough you are trying to make God and religion sound Violante, let me remind you that most wars are fought for individual rights. such as here in America our first war was for the right to rule our self, had almost nothing to do with religion, second main war was to settle the argument for slavery, had very little to do with religion. next main war was WWI, it started when a driver took a wrong turn and some one from Austria got assassinated. had nothing to do with religion. next major war was ww2. it had to do with Hitler invading country's, and the Japanese bombing us. than there was koria. had to do with borders and Communism. next war was Vietnam same as before. wow, all these wars and not a single one over God. \n bu bu but in philosophy class thay said God caused all these wars.\n just because theres a war in the middle east dose not mean it was caused by or for God.\n geeze, most of you people wont even live for God, let alone die for Him.
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Given that so many wars have started, and continue because of religious beliefs, I would say religion is extremely important in society.  Anything that can evoke the kind of passion necessary to maintain the level of intensity needed to sustain a war is important.
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If you are a christian, you know that the bible tells us that there will never be peace on earth.  Wars are said to increase as the end of the world approaches.\n\nWorld peace may be a simple concept to us in america, because all we know is peace and prosperity, other people know nothing but war and violence.
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One could say that we are in WWIII right now, although most unlike WWI and WWII.  Seeing so many violent protests throughout the Muslim world over the cartoons of Mohammed published by Danish and other European newspapers, I can't help but think that the conflict between the Muslim world and the Western world has been escalating for centuries, and will soon erupt into a much larger scale conflict.  It's not about the war on terror, Bush trying to take over the world, Oil-rich capitatlists trying to manipulate the government, but an age old conflict of political ideology, religous beliefs, nationalistic pride, etc.\n\nBut if you refer to an all-out conventional/nuclear war between the most powerful countries of the world, i.e. America, Britain, France, India, Israel, vs. Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan; then my answer is no, thanks to globalization.  No matter how precarious relations between the world's most powerful and/or influential nations may be, most politicans will realize that such a large scale war is economically stupid, when even unsound peace is economically preferable.
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As long as there are religions, there are wars against countries.\n\nIf there were no religions, the wars would be of a more honest kind.\n\nnow there`s christians declaring wars for "democracy" in the name of god.\nIt would make a slight difference in honesty, if a president or nation would just say "we want your oil, period"\n\nreligion is a shield for real intentions.
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I'm pretty sure the capacity for starting fights is equally shared among all belief systems.  Certainly Yahoo Answers creates a forum for moronic, facile attacks on the belief systems of others, whether one is atheist, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Wiccan, Baha'i, Yezidi, Hindu, Jain, you name it.  Maybe what you mean is that your attention is drawn to atheist expressions of hostility to the beliefs of others.  Your own question does smach of anti-Catholic prejudice, for example, so perhaps anti-Catholic statements made by others don't offend you.  In all fairness, it is hard to explain the contemporary situation in the world of mutual hostility between, say, Jews, Christians, and Muslims by blaming the atheists, right?  I mean, the atheists didn't start the Iraq war and aren't playing a major role in perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.  I think you are right to advocate for a more civil dialogue (you can begin by examining your anti-Catholic and anti-Atheist prejudices, perhaps)--considered starting with the man or woman in the mirror?
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It will never stop as long as thier are different religious beliefs and devote followers.\nThose who aim to eliminate other groups for thier beliefs, take control of thier worship areas ,lands, etc.\nThose who use religion and beliefs as a form of control.  \nLook at what underlines most every war.
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This is a perplexing situation.  \nIn the middle east it has been going on for thousands of years and it's a wonder how they have gone so long with out totally destroying themselves.\n\nIt must be due to the fact that prior to this war it was always small scale skirmishes.  You killed my brother so I kill you and your brother too, and back and forth...\n\nAlso another irony\n\nAll religions preach there own version of thou shalt not kill yet religion has caused the most wars in history...\n\nSo the answer to your question would be that this will never end until the people become educated enough to realize that what they are doing is the opposite of what they are supposed to be doing...
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To all things there is a season upon the earth, including war and peace.  Fortunately, we are now entering a time in history of great enlightenment and peace.  It may take a few generations, but it's inevitable.\n\nIf you want peace, work for justice for your fellow man.  That means people on the other side of the planet who may have a different religion.  We can all agree to covenant to One All Highest Creator to give up war and violence, at every level.
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The only way to achieve world peace is to completely annihilate basal human nature. Wars are fought over greed, jealousy, anger, bigotry, and lust. While it would be nice to imagine a world without these things, it'll never happen.
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Three words: RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM and CAPITALISM.\nSome have responded with answers such as Satan. However, that would imply that the world is getting worse. Historically speaking, it certainly is not. The unification of and cooperation between countries indicates a positive movement of participants in the world economy. This is a recent and continuing phenomenon.\n\nThe current threat to stability is the widespread conflict in the Middle East, in addition to much of Africa's problems. What fosters these problems? RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM and CAPITALISM.
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This is very true. The problem is people using religion to justify their actions. It is very easy to say that I did what I did because God wanted that way; include a few bible verses that are compatible with your actions, and you are good to go. How can anybody that believes in God try to argue?\n\nBy the way, you see this all over the bible. God said attack and kill all. God said keep the virgins. God said to kill a bunch of kids. Some of the most terrible things in history were based on religious grounds. \n\nWe do not want to go back to those days, because then everyone will have a reason to go against everyone.
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It is human nature to fight, sad to say.  Jesus did say that it was harder to enter God's kingdom that it is to get a camel through the eye of the needle.  It is so simple really, but people just don't want to believe it.  Many people use their so called 'religion' as an excuse for there wars that are really all about hate and greed which goes agains any religion. Most people that claim to be Christian (or Catholic, or Muslim, or Jewish) are just saying that without knowing the true nature of the religion they are claiming.  The sad truth is, that the majority of humanity does not want to believe in God or salvation.  They want to do it on their own.  They also do not wish to think that there are consequences for their actions.  By eliminating God and/or Hell, they are free to do what they wish without consequences (or so they think).  In this case, the truth really DOES hurt.  This is why Jesus wept.
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Number Two. There will always be religious people. Because of propaganda, media, and other sources, most of them will not realize that the central point to all religions is to treat everyone as you would want to be treated. So different religons will continue fighting until one is almost completely dominant over all the others. Even then, there'll be uprisings.\nAn alternative would be for all countries to become secular and tolerate all relgions, then no religion will dominate all others.\nNot only that, but as more and more people get educated, more and more people will become atheist or agnostic.
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Political motivations start wars, not religion.\nReligion provides (im)moral support.\nThis is not to say religion is bad, quite the contrary, but that it has been historically misused to mobilize people towards war.\nAnd history keeps repeating itself.
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In the real world there are things called strategic resources which countries desperately need, they are willing to fight for them.  Also, religion makes people hate each other. ect.  It's not realistic that war will go away any time soon.