Is religion mainly to blame for hatred/ war?

thats just...i dont know, but your post really pissed me off. thats amazingly over simplified, and you sound a little brainwashed saying 'nobody needs to know exactly why'
 
my history teacher was talking about if the worlds coming together or breaking apart and basicly when people have a disagreement that causes tension. that disagreement can be whatever
 
if the morals of religion where truly upheld, such as thou shal not kill etc. then there would be no war, we would all be rediculously polite, perfect world and the lot. How ever this is clearly never ever going to be the case, people ignoring religious ideals is the cause for wars really, but then again thats responsible for most of whats wrong in the world. now im in no place to criticise, i myself am a athiest also! but i think its misinterpretation of religions that lead to contributing factors to war, i.e. 9/11. but wars can happen easily with out religion, for example the world wars didn't start for religious reasons, its human nature for war to happen aka greed.

whilst people have free will therel b arse holes!

but yeah what your saying is still true, you convert everyone to be buddhist and il be new Primeminister or whatever?
 
i know, those crazy bastards.

Its the Buddha's fault...he was obese and had the testicles of an elephant. If thats not a good reason for the whole of mankind to hate, I don't know what is....
 
Over humanities history the powers have been able to warp religion to convince people that war is a necessity.

So yea, religion has killed hundreds of millions upon millions of people.
 
^911 happened because, as Ron Paul said, "We have been over there, bombing them for 10 years." I think our foreign policy is the reason that they came over here, religion was just used as a tool to get more followers.

That said, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, and Pot were all atheist dictators who killed literally hundreds of millions of people. (Yes Hitler was Atheist, I hate how people try to argue that.) Oh and lets not forget the amount of people who died in the wars that these guys started. When the death toll of people with religion can even compare to the numbers that these people brought, I may change my view that religion does not kill people, unless it is used as a tool when used in the wrong context.

Religion is not to blame for hatred and war, it is mostly to blame for forgiveness and ending wars.
 
religion plays a big part in it but i dont know if its the route cause - casue i mean mostly people argue abour religion but its really the super religious people who take it over the top and are willing to bomb some place becasue their so called "God" told them to do it. and if god is supposed to be there and be good then he wouldnt tell people to bomb shit so its pretty fucked up
 
Then why did the owner of the twin towers double up on insurence before they got attacked.

He made something like 7 billion when they fell.
 
When did I say it didn't? Does it really matter what the original reason is? No, its a fun topic to discuss but it wont do us any good in the big scheme of things. There are a lot of fucked up people out there who want to kill us, and theres nothing we can do to make em change their minds.

And the guy that said I over simplified it....

There isnt a lot to simplify here. Did government cause it, maybe, religion, maybe. It doesnt really matter. You can argue all you want, the bottom line is that these people are fucked up beyond our understanding. We cant reason with them, we may never understand their motives.
 
i agree with you about why they hate US, but the extremists are brainwashed, they think they're actions are morally justified by they're religion

 
your link doesn't work but i'm going to guess it has something to do with the US' involvement with Israel
 
"Muslim's, Jews and Christians war

till there's none left to praise the lord"

K'naan

but really religion isn't the main cause of war and suffering in the world. It's greed and money. Nationalism and desire for power. People feeling they need to push their own (obviously superior) views on other people. Religion can often get involved in war and fuel it more. I mean if it weren't for religion there wouldn't be conflicts over isreal, however the majority of war is due to cocky people who are intollerant of others views
 
religion has been the major backbone for almost every war in history. the reason some, eh most, wars occur is because some corrupt guy interprets their religious goal wrong. hence in the islamic world, the quran(butchered that) says to do one major thing, but the recent radicalists interpret it as ridding the world of all other religions by any means possible. therefore its ok to walk into a public coffee shop and blow up innocent women and children, just because 2 americans are in there. its a corrupt religion that keeps shifting its ideals further and further away from the truth.
 
Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin did not believe in a god (don't try to say Hitler did, he did not). So, political power and money usually are the things to start wars and death (the exception would be Hitler who really believed in the Arian race and wanted what he thought was best for Germany).

So I really think that even including religion is not fair when you look at the biggest dictators of all time.

btw: has anyone noticed how the "rastafarians" ruined ns thinkers? just look at the last topics. uhh.
 
religion has lost it's point I think, well some religions. Most of the ones that are big in this country. However there is more at play. Humans, inherently, have a good and bad side. It's a law of nature.

There will ALWAYS be good and there will ALWAYS be evil.
 
yes it is.

no religion=world peace (miss america would have to then find something else to say during the interview portion of the pageant).
 
yep its the societys that create hate which leads to war. basically,,, its all the republicans fault.
 
shut up isn;t really an appropriate response since i wasn;t talking and making noise. my response to the original question was in written form - ie- no noise. if you don;t like my response - fine but say that, not shut up- which as mentioned doesn;t make sense, given the context. (if however you had to read my response aloud to understand it then you could say shut up to yourself as in that situation you'd be the one making the noise.)
 
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