Is religion responsible for our wars?

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47. No need for other examples

Kashmir was partitioned by agreement on religious lines not racial or economic and certainly not historical or geographic; the politics came after the religion. The people were killed because they were in the section of Kashmir not considered appropriate for those of their faith. This was, and is, a religious based war.

No you don't hate to open the can of worms, arguments are fun! Again what was the identifying feature of the peoples identified by the Balfour Declaration? It was their faith. What is more the people of that faith who encouraged Balfour and assisted in the writing of that declaration. Additionally the Christians of Europe wanted rid of people of a faith they despised, which is why it had so much resonance politically.

Following this the occupation of Palestine, the terrorism that followed, the establishment of the State of Israel were all done to fulfill a religious dogma, not a political necessity and not an economic compulsion. Please remember that the original Balfour declaration did not envisage an entirely Jewish state but a multi-ethnic one. The stated aims of the Zionists was precisely an entirely Jewish state and that has resulted in the displacement of large numbers of people not of that faith. Again, the conflict was based on religious dogma.

Tutsi and Hutu, you're probably right regarding France and Uganda; except that, as always, the rational used by the people who performed the genocide could be pushed into it were both religious and tribal. Additionally the tensions that were exploited by the politicians were religious and the religions exploited by those puppeteers were those that the puppeteers favoured in their own states.

Your turn, or shall we agree to disagree?