Religion can play an indirect role in causing wars. Since it's only an idea though, it can never be said to be directly responsible for a war...
Religion can help solidify a "Us vs Them" mentality. Take Blackwater killing innocents because their head guy felt he was on a crusade. From what it sounds like, he felt all muslims where worth exterminating. If there was no religion perhaps he wouldn't have been brought up to feel that way about other humans.
Everything comes down to the individual. How was that person raised? One can be a bigot without religion, but yet with religion out of the way I think more doors open for people to be taught and raised in a more open way of thinking, both about the world and others.
You can blame those who start the war, how did the leader of whatever force is attacking think? What was their justification? I think one of the biggest brain damages religion causes is an elevated since of self. As in; if God is on your side, then you can get away with what you need to because obviously God's got your back. You're no longer equal with the rest of humanity, you're part of a chosen (gang mentality, basically) That's how a person may -think- because of a religious upbringing. It still comes down to the person.
I can go into soldiers flocking under a religious banner, and wars started because one faith insults another too, but you get the idea.
>> ^osama1234: This reminds me of Ann Coulter's "Canada sent troop to vietnam" type thing, where the canadian reporter said, " no we didn't sent throops". She then replied, "No, I'm sure, they did".
I caught one episode soon after it started and a Klingon was standing with the Captain on a high cliff and he actually said, "I can see my house from here.". At least I'm PRETTY sure he did. I did like a triple take trying to determine if I had slipped into some strange daydream or something.
Anyways, I didn't watch it much at all after that.
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Religion can help solidify a "Us vs Them" mentality. Take Blackwater killing innocents because their head guy felt he was on a crusade. From what it sounds like, he felt all muslims where worth exterminating. If there was no religion perhaps he wouldn't have been brought up to feel that way about other humans.
Everything comes down to the individual. How was that person raised? One can be a bigot without religion, but yet with religion out of the way I think more doors open for people to be taught and raised in a more open way of thinking, both about the world and others.
You can blame those who start the war, how did the leader of whatever force is attacking think? What was their justification? I think one of the biggest brain damages religion causes is an elevated since of self. As in; if God is on your side, then you can get away with what you need to because obviously God's got your back. You're no longer equal with the rest of humanity, you're part of a chosen (gang mentality, basically) That's how a person may -think- because of a religious upbringing. It still comes down to the person.
I can go into soldiers flocking under a religious banner, and wars started because one faith insults another too, but you get the idea.
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This reminds me of Ann Coulter's "Canada sent troop to vietnam" type thing, where the canadian reporter said, " no we didn't sent throops". She then replied, "No, I'm sure, they did".
...and they did.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Did_Canada_send_troops_to_Vietnam
Quite a few in fact, it sounds.
Canada awarded medals to 1,550 of these troops for their service between August 7, 1954 and January 28, 1973.
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