Why is religion so bent on war?

Are you willing to fight for your conclusion?

Battle Cry is obviously using the word "battle" as an analogy; they're not talking about physical combat, they're talking about spiritual warfare, i.e. fighting evil influences. The Crusade one sounds a little nutty, but every religion contains nuts. That doesn't make the religion bad.

In any case, the world is a violent place. As much as you or I might like to rely on discussion and persuasion, our enemies might not always agree with that. If you take a totally pacifistic outlook on life, you're liable to get your butt kicked and your country taken over.

religion causes many wars because it blinds it's people. people justify starting wars w/ religion as their justification. i still think so many things would have happened regardless of relgion though.

ex, 9/11 attacks would have happened but the hijackers could not ahve justified their actions to themselves by claiming jihad. i know jihad can be interpreted in more than one way, but we have to understand that the hijackers did believe the interpretation that they would go to heaven for doing their actions.

they still would have done it w/o religion because it's a power struggle. the country is poorer and that is why they would still have a hatred toward the US for being prosperous (prosperous bullies, i might add)

religion is like the lighthouse effect. it does make a lot of problems but it is deterring a lot more than people can imagine. the risk of abolishing it is too great.

Because religious people are a bunch of bloodthirsty semi-barbaric animals.

Their quest for violence has existed throughout human history.

With the fall of the Roman Empire, the librarian of Alexandria was pulled off her carriage and skinned alive. Literacy dropped. Even the Pope had to have the Bible read to him. In the first crusade, Christians killed tens of thousands of people they called "infidels". The Children's Crusade (1212) caused the deaths of nearly 50,000 children. Preachers sentenced to death and executed thousands during the Inquisition (1233-1834) for heresy and witchcraft. There were the Salem witch trials (1692) in America. The 17th Century Thirty Years War (Catholics v. protestants) wiped out tens of millions in Europe. In the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850's a Christian cult started a war that resulted in the slaughter of twenty million people. In the Holocaust six million Jews were murdered. Muslims and Christians in Bosnia reached a death toll of over 250,000.

See what I mean?

Go to another country.

Be Happy that in America we have freedom of religion.

Don't want to ide the world of religion. Rid the world of not letting people believe what they want to believe,

When their right to believe in whatever religion is taken, they become obcessive...

Rid the world of taking people's rights away

Spiritual battle against rampant immorality in the world, media, Internet etc.?

You know, some people's hypocrisy astounds me. How many people have died "in the name of democracy"?

By your logic, we should also rid the world of all political ideologies.

Because religions were created by men and are implemented by men. And the end justifies the means.

So you actually believe that if there was no religion, there would have never been a war? That mankind wouldn't just find any excuse to kill each other (as we do now)?

Wow. I wish I could be that ...innocent.

Some people mistake their personal opinion with "divine truth."

Therefore people who disagree aren't simply stating another opinion, they are minions of satan.

It isn't the religion; it is the people in the religion.