RE: Does religion make armies stronger?
August 3, 2015 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2015 at 12:14 pm by Aristocatt.)
"If God does not exist, everything is permitted." - Dostoevsky
I think in someways this is true, but I think "Gods existence can make anything good" is equally true.
I would say that an army that fervently believes that they are doing Gods work is an army that is more ready to die than an army that thinks they are simply doing the right thing for the world. Uncertainty can always creep into the minds of the fighters who think they are doing right atheistically, because the horrors they will see will tell them they are not doing right.
That uncertainty would seem to have little room in the heart of a devout follower.
But all the time spent dogmatically applying religion to you life also means all that time spent not studying reality/training/etc. So in that sense an atheist army if they really work towards it seems like a potentially more advanced/better trained army.
I would say in general it probably doesn't matter to much. I don't think unless you rally an army behind the will of god it really has any sort of influence on them.
I think in someways this is true, but I think "Gods existence can make anything good" is equally true.
I would say that an army that fervently believes that they are doing Gods work is an army that is more ready to die than an army that thinks they are simply doing the right thing for the world. Uncertainty can always creep into the minds of the fighters who think they are doing right atheistically, because the horrors they will see will tell them they are not doing right.
That uncertainty would seem to have little room in the heart of a devout follower.
But all the time spent dogmatically applying religion to you life also means all that time spent not studying reality/training/etc. So in that sense an atheist army if they really work towards it seems like a potentially more advanced/better trained army.
I would say in general it probably doesn't matter to much. I don't think unless you rally an army behind the will of god it really has any sort of influence on them.
