(October 4, 2017 at 12:45 pm)MitjaHD Wrote: Some people claim religion has caused the most wars throughout the history of mankind, but. In the book encyclopedia of wars it says out of 1763 wars only 126 were caused because of religion. Theists also defend themselves by saying that atheists have killed more people than religious people (Stalin, Zedong...). How would you respond? Does religion play a role in wars or it has nothing to do with it?
Economics would be the primary cause (at the root of it; the motivation of those in power to declare wars, at any rate) but you can't argue that the religious mindset of blindly accepting authority, hostility toward outgroups, etc., make it very easy to turn otherwise peaceful folk into bloodthirsty killers and manipulable sheep. So, is religion the (primary) cause? Maybe not. But the means of making it actually happen? Fuck yes. And it's not diminished in the slightest in helping this along even now.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
