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Have you any examples where Religion helped prevent war or alleviated it’s worst consequences?

We often hear religion causes strife, but what about how it prevents or alleviates it?

Can you think of any examples in history, in the present moment or even in your own personal experience ?

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS GOOD AT CALMING PEOPLE DOWN DONT U THINK?? IF U WANT something more specific why not try the Library?

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    No. Religion is responsible for almost all wars.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    3 years ago

    lol... no, that has never happened, Religion has done nothing but cause problems, death and suffering.

  • Althea
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    With the Hutu & Tutsi strife that went on in Rwanda a couple of years that many people lost their lives but Jehovah’s Witnesed didn’t get involved in this because they loved each other as brothers according to John 13:34, 35 and not to hate their enemies but to love them according to Matthew 5:43, 44.

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  • Nous
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Biblical wars.

    Crusades.

    Dark ages.

    Reformation.

    Stalin was raised a Catholic and controlled the Russian Orthodox Church – in the top ten of Christian denominations. Russia has always been Christian which is why St Basil’s Cathedral is at the heart of the Kremlin!

    WWII - Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. - Adolf Hitler

    My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter.

    - Adolf Hitler

    As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. - Adolf Hitler

    George W Bush started FIVE wars in less than eight years stating each time that it was his "God Given Duty” and in 2001 even called it a Crusade!

    Not his duty to the electors!

    Not his duty to America!

    Just his duty to keep slaughtering heathens for his god!

    Look at all the terrible intolerance, hatred, bigotry, homophobia and persecution posted by Christians towards others!

  • ?
    Lv 5
    3 years ago

    Up to the Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, the Church was even able to stop warring parties for religious holidays and other binding reasons. But State interfered with Church and boo hooo

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    No i can not.

  • Alan H
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Most social historians believe the Wesleyan revival prevented the equivalent of the French Revolution

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    No

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Yes. Throughout history, liberals have perished and been sent to a Hellish oblivion to spend eternity. This has helped to prevent misery and wars amongst the living.

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