Right, claiming that a bunch of highly religious rednecks that clearly felt that god put them niggers here so that they could put em in the field to plant and pick their cotton, and probably would have told you something along those lines had you asked them, is totally far-fetched and silly.Sabek wrote:That is an insane level of absurdity to take this to.Funkmasterr wrote:Was kind of my point.miir wrote:Are you trying to say that all of those were atheist and/or agnostic conflicts?Kilmoll the Sexy wrote: Was the Civil War religion based?
Was the Mongol destruction of everything religion based?
Korea?
WWI?
Vietnam?
Russian Civil War?
I'm pretty damn sure the individuals involved in those conflicts were overwhelmingly religious.
For example.. Civil War. What was the main reason for the war? What did most of the idiotic rednecks have in common besides wanting to keep their slaves? Yeah.. Nothing to do with religion at all..
The Civil War had nothing to do with religion. It had everything to do with half a country not wanting slavery anymore and the other half not wanting to lose their free labor.
If you want to get that absurd you can say some people in the army are religious so technically every war in forever was religious.
That's absurdity to try and make your point which ends up making your point look silly.
The point isn't that religion was the 100% direct cause, but that organized religion breeds this dangerous fucked up thinking, and it spills over into all aspects of life. Of course if you look in the bible their ridiculous shit wouldn't be supported anywhere in many situations, but like several of you said, that doesn't mean the church can't twist it to mean anything they want and get people to buy into it.