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.

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

You fail to see that you ask a one-sided answer to a two-sided question. Since war is often X warring against Y and Y only being involved rather than be destroyed.

The Gods of War: Is Religion the Primary Cause of Violent Conflict?

by Meic Pearse

the two principal causes of human warfare are in fact culture and greed for territory, resources or power. Since culture and greed often clothe themselves in religion, wars fought for culture often appear to be fought for religion

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

Sometimes. If a soldier is religious then there is a relationship between war and religion.

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.

Yes there has always been religious wars. Even in says that God allows it to be war.

That's a loaded question. But I would have to say that you left out one major player. Politics! But also there is the instinctual water hole behavior that man will war over land and resources. We are not that much different than apes or ants.

There are 3 things that cause war: politics, religion, economics. Which makes it interesting we're moving toward a global government, global (one-world) religion, and global currency - all predicted in scripture. What else can they do once they've created the weapons capable of destroying all life on earth? So they're forced to play into God's plan.

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.