Did you know that in history more wars were started by religious reasons then po

I Have to disagree... Most wars are pinned to religion, even though that is not the root of the war to begin with. A lot of this is caused by the Media slant and the powers that be. For example, the war and battles between England and Ireland were publicized by the media as a war between the Protestants and the Catholics, when in reality the war was about Englands rule over Ireland and Irelands desire to be free and independant. This is typical of media and press, and the powers that be. It is a ruse that will be used to explain why we need to do away with religious differences, but changing ou religious beliefs is not the answer. In reality it is our own greed, desire to dominate, and power that starts most wars, then we blame it on God, or our cultural deviations on religious aspects. The only war I can think of that was truly engaged by anyone that was religious based was the Crusades and this was because the english Catholic church, knowing the prophecies of Jerusalem would eventually be given back to the people of Israel would come true, and in their own timing they desired to force this event to happen for their own religious reasonings. This obviously was not Gods timing, as Hosea 6:2 says, after two days He will revive us and in the third day He will raise us up and we shall live in His sight. Politically and speaking as humans, the catholic Church tried to force this event a few hundred years before it's time. A day is as a thousand years, and for two days, (2000 years) they have been scattered and smitten. In this case as your post says, the religion was interpreted wrong because they wanted to force the long awaited by Christian event of His return, before it was due. Sorry, didn't mean to bring religion into this, but it is part of the topic, (let's not go to war over it, LOL) WWI & WWII, Napoleon, etc were wars over power and land, the wars in Iraq and Iran are over money and the money that oil brings. Had we never put the oil wells over there, they would be insignificant in todays political world, (not as people, people are not insignificant), it would simply be desert land adn there would be no attention there, and the middle east nations would not have the money or the power to wage a technical war against their neighbors. America would not be over there trying to empower any political parties because the leaders of those nations like Saddam, would not be selling the oil outright, against the developers ageement that oil must be sold back to them for world wide distribution. So, is the war betweet Israel and the Arabian nations a war of Muslims against the Jews, or a war over land rights? Is the war between America and Iraq a war of supposed Christian nation and Muslims, or a war over oil rights? If you are pounded daily with news of the Catholics against the protestants, you believe what is pounded into you daily. They say a chld told though his childhood that he is a failure, he will become one. We put the religios lables on people involved in war, but there is really in most cases a political/economical power struggle between neighbors which gets labeled by the cultural religious beliefs.

yes I knew this, and too many people blame religion for this, even though it is people who start the wars, not religion itself.

Yes that is a common belief among many. I how ever think it really boils down to power and money in the name of religion. I think if religion never existed, we would have just as many wars. Humans would find some reason to rally the troops in order to take what the other has.

No, I don't agree with your statement. Although many wars were (in a way or another) motivated by religious reasons, wars motivated by political and imperiecal reasons are much more. As for the religious wars, it was always based on extremism an false interpretation of religions or people taking religions as a cover for their political and imperiecal reasons.

can't say. but i know that most of the wars that took place were due to a woman or land!

i totally agree with u. first there was muslims spreading theyre religion using the sword then there was the crusades then came joan of arcadia.......then recently what is so called the "jihad" and the civil war in iraq. what a shame! religion should be about peace not about territory and power. PEOPLE!!! UNITE!

Yes, I did know that and that is the reason I refuse to follow any religion. Most of them actually talk about peace and harmony but people tend to interpret the meaning into, 'if you don't believe what I believe, you're wrong and I can kill you.' Until everyone realises that we are al part of the same race this will continue.