Does Religion Cause War?

Religion has its shares of promoting violence. Many will argue that a cause of religion wars is for economic and political reasons, but others argue that those who start wars are, by definition, not religious. In reality, separating religion out of economic and political motives can be involved in such a way finding religious motives innocent of much. Excuses for Christianity responsibilities cannot be accepted whether the person has misappropriated the message of Christ. The primarily set of doctrines is not Christianity, but by living through past background it personified the visible actions of Christians. In other words, Christianity, Islam or any other religion has no intention of excusing from survey. Given certain conditions, Christianity, Islam or any other religion can and do cause war.

Charles Kimball’s book When Religion Becomes Evil states, “It is somewhat trite, but nevertheless sadly true, to say that more wars have people killed, and these days more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history.” (Kimball 1). According to Kimball, an assurance to rite for needing proving, for no evidence support attempted. If one challenges to prove it, one will need recognizable evidence from other institutional forces over the course of study with a concept of religion.

Before the modern era, there was a problem with religion being distinct from governmental institutions. In Wilfred Cantwell Smith book, The Meaning and End of Religion, Smith suggests people need to investigate their custom, because giving religious names fixes people’s mind to not question the religion about acts of violence. According to Smith, there was no significant concept in premodern Europe alternative t...

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...n can and do cause war because different backgrounds like nationalism and liberalism mixes up beliefs persuading its followers to think war is the answer to their problems. Religious violence should not be in the same category as secular violence simply because it can mislead followers; therefore, it should be avoided altogether.

Works Cited

Charles Kimball, When Religion Becomes Evil (HarperSanFrancisco, 2002), pg.1, 15, 38

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, The Meaning and End of Religion (Macmillan, 1962), pg.19

Martin Marty, with Jonathan Moore, Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion's Role in Our Shared Life (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000), 25-26, 10-14, 24.

Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2000), 146, 153, 154, 217.