Morality

[Reforged]

Kratos, I'm going to drop the contempt I generally feel for you for a brief moment to explain that the reason why warfare is so common is the drive for survival and power, though power is only a means to ensure survival; when you are stronger, you have less risk of being subjugated by outside influences, increasing your odds of survival. The religions of the world have been one of the most common driving influences for war. Not the ONLY reasons...but that's only in modern history. Even still, churches have never hesitated to bless one army or both, calling their reasons for war "divine" and "holy" and "just." War is a plague of humanity but religion has done nothing to suppress it; it has only aggravated it. I will stop short of saying that war is solely caused by religion, because that is simply not true. But religion claims itself to be the righteous guide of humanity and yet there is nothing righteous in almost every single war humanity has waged upon itself. There are a few notable exceptions; drives for independence and freedom, like in the US's war for independence from Great Britain, but those are few and far in between. Someone mentioned Manifest Destiny, talking about how it was what resulted in the slaughter of the native Americans. Are you aware WHAT Manifest Destiny even fucking entails? It is basically the "will of Providence;" that the American expansion was THE WILL OF GOD. You shoot yourself in the foot! IT WAS BASICALLY STATING GOD CONDONED THE MURDER OF NATIVE AMERICANS for the goal of expanding American influence! AND YOU TWO STILL CLAIM THAT THE IDEA OF GOD IS A RIGHTEOUS INFLUENCE, ARE YOU FUCKING BENT?!