Is religion responsible for our wars?

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31. Did you not see my 3rd paragraph?

The partition of India was solely upon religious lines. It was not economics, nor was it language (the Indian State still has many recognised languages some of which are Pashtun based) and it was not racial. The leaders of the Pakistanis did not want Muslims participating as a minority in what still is the worlds largest secular democracy. Similarly the only reason for the establishment of the Zionist state of Israel was to provide a safe haven for those of a particular religion and the location was based solely upon a book of dubious religious legends. Both of these lead to modern, religion based conflicts.

On the same theme I am not as well founded in modern African wars but the little I do see is that fringe Christians us weasel words about secular freedoms whilst attempting to enforce their own, bloody versions of Christianity. The Tutsi/Hutu conflict in Rwanda was largely based on a religious divide between two tribal, Christian entities