[citation][nom]rpgplayer[/nom]idk, it's kind of hard for me to listen to someone say something is wrong because their religion says it is. on the other hand atleast 80% of the wars in history were over religious differences. so it's ok to kill, just not ok to love another person regardless of sex.i'm not gay btw, it's just that it's my opinion that if gays want to marry then go for it. [edit] [/citation]
[citation][nom]alidan[/nom]i have yo say you are wrong. i say you cant look at any history more than 2000 years old and expect the whole truth, when you cant ever get the whole truth of things that happen 10 years ago. like why a war starts. popular opinion may state that the war was religious, but look at this in terms of the ruler. whats easier to rally people to your cause? telling them the truth, ro god says this, they do that, lets get um.hell i can only immagin that the ruling parties of the world know what bs religions are, they just keep the people ignorant enough to manipulate them, but not dumb enough to be useless. the smarter a person is the less they believe in any religion, they may believe in something, but not anything organised.[/citation]
alidan, but that simply proves rpgplayer's point. even if a "ruler" doesn't want, or start, a war for religious reasons, but tells his/her people that they should fight for religious reasons, the people STILL decide to fight for religious reasons. and even if, in some wars, there are those who fight for different reasons (economic/political/whatever), it is still true that the vast majority of those fighting the war or supporting it have done so (do so) for religious reasons.