Is there a relationship between war and religion?

I do not think they are directly related, I think that humans are predisposed to form into groups and to have some antipathy to those that are different from themselves. This can cause people to use religion as a reason to start a war, but I do not think it is quite the same as religion causing a war. The aspects of human nature that create religion are the same aspects that create war....Show more

Yeah just before you get yourass blown up you find religion....Show more

No. Atheists start wars too. Ask the atheists Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Joe Stalin, and their successors....Show more

War is inevitable and religion just becomes an excuse. Like there are several examples like Wars of Russia weren't based on religions....this conflict of Russia with Ukraine isn't either religious one, America and Vietnam wasn't religious either, and Stalin and Mao.....you know all....Show more

Let's see, is there a relationship between being taught to revere authority and accepting war-mongering uncritically? I sure totally can't think of one no matter what....Show more