Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position

[Abaddon_ire]

All right, this is an anti-religion forum, so it's futile to try and argue that groups who self-identify according to religion are in fact fighting over political and economic issues.

I hold that no large-scale religious conflict was ever sustained without the underlying causes being about power and resources.

This was true in the Thirty Years' War, which started due to odd inheritance practices is German-speaking areas and intensified when Protestant nobles and Catholic nobles in those areas were wrestling over control, but ended up being a war for power between Catholic France and the Catholic Hapsburgs.

It was true between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines in Italy, who divided along Emperor vs. Pope sectarian lines, entirely about who would wield power.

It was true when the Blues and the Greens were fighting in Byzantium, when one version of theology became associated with the upper classes, and another with the poor. And we know that the upper classes will do what it takes to keep their power.

It's true in the Middle East today, where fights over political dominance and resources cause people to divide up, and in the absence of secular leaders who aren't US toadies, cause people look to imams for guidance. If Kissinger hadn't lied to Syria, and the US hadn't funded Islamists to oppose the USSR, things would look very different.

Religion provides easy answers, both to the people who believe it and the people who blame it.

1 minute 26 video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCU6Clpkxk

Now grow up.