Religion and War

[mazHur]

Be on the Offensive
Be on the Defensive
Or just sit Pretty
All roads lead to Rome
That is WAR!!

[Paulclem]

Future wars will be for water...
Remember, the Suez canal 'wars' were for passage.
It's not always that wars are in the name of religion. But, ofcourse, religious wars are inevitable if someone, a people or a nation, meddles with the religious sentiments, things or places of another. The case in point is Israel, Palestine, creation of Baltic and Caucasian states....and brewing resentment in Chechnya, the Phillipines , Thailand, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, etc etc. and religious wars are not confined to any one religion. All and everywhere it is the same.

It's just as easy to say these wars are about power - tribal power in some cases. Religion is one of the contexts, but unfortunately the most powerful motivator of the manipulated.

Israel and Palestine you could argue are for power and a perceived sense of security. Chechnya - power and independance. Thailand - power one ethnic religious group against a ruling ethnic/ religious group. Afghanistan - power and influence. Pakistan - land. Religion is in the mix but is not the prime motivator of those pursuing the wars with the most to gain.

[mazHur]

It's just as easy to say these wars are about power - tribal power in some cases. Religion is one of the contexts, but unfortunately the most powerful motivator of the manipulated.

Israel and Palestine you could argue are for power and a perceived sense of security. Chechnya - power and independance. Thailand - power one ethnic religious group against a ruling ethnic/ religious group. Afghanistan - power and influence. Pakistan - land. Religion is in the mix but is not the prime motivator of those pursuing the wars with the most to gain.

To sum up, most disputes in the world are politically-motivated. Religion, in some cases, provides the necessary impetus to fight for one's right, right or wrong.

[IceM]

I can think of a Biblical contradiction in this sense, as it's genetically impossible. Correct me if I'm wrong: God created Adam and Eve when He first created Man. Nobody else. They had two children, Cain and Abel. Now stop.

There are more ethnicities in the world than one can count on his hands and feet five times over. How would such a genetic variation exist if Mankind only deviated from two people? Even if Adam and Eve were 1% of everything, full-bred (insert ethnicity here) would be impossible. Explain how that can happen.

In retrospect, this is not a contradiction, as the creation account is not refuted by later Biblical texts.

The science of how all of humanity derived from an original pair is beyond me - but just because God did not disclose that in the Genesis account does not mean this is a contradiction within the Bible. Glory to God in the highest.