Reply #8: It would be better to say that religion complicates things [View All]

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Most issues can be negotiated. Money, land, rights, trade routes, etc. All these can eventually be negotiated. Dogmatic authoratative religions (they aren't all that way) cannot compromise their doctrine. It is absolute. There is no room for negotiation.

Add further to the problem the fact that some religions are predatory in nature. They don't just advocate to their own existing members. They actively seek to convert others. These particular systems initiate a form of cultural warfare that inevitibly leads to real wars.

Yes people can fight about nearly anything. But once you place a system of thought that is inflexibile and doctrinare in nature you have created a focal point that will lead to conflict eventually.

Incidently the methodology of authoratative religions are not exclusive to religion. Some forms of political and social structures can wind up using the same methodologies. The form of Marxism practiced in the USSR purged all competing belief systems. Any that did not agree with it were reeducated or eradicated. When the science of evolution contended with it pressure was applied to force the scientists into compliance. It is not too great a strecth to suggest that this system was perhaps a form of religious dogma as well.