Religion Causes War with Intolerance and Distrust

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Religion and Religious beliefs instigate war. This is seen when people try to compel others to adopt their religion or religious beliefs, when a nation of a particular religion conviction goes to war against another nation and when a communities of different religious convictions develop intolerance and distrust for one another.

Firstly most wars are created when fanatics try to compel others to adopt their religion or religious beliefs. The desire to convince another human to follow similar beliefs can be accompanied with a strong passion, so strong in fact that if others were against their particular beliefs, extremists’ may resort to violence to achieve an end. One example was shown during the initial broadcast of Islam when the prophet Mohammad actually declared a holy war against the desert kingdoms and cities or Arabia. The purpose of the holy war was to compel the Arab society to accept the new religion he had founded. This kind of religious conflict was also sufficiently demonstrated during the thirty years war of the 1600’s. Catholics and Protestants in Europe were locked in a long and devastating conflict that arose because warring religious and political leaders were trying to force each other to accept their own version of what Christianity should be.

Secondly religion causes war when a nation of a particular religious conviction goes to war against another nation, not to convert it to their religion but to simply eliminate them as non-believers who are unfit to populate a certain geographical locality. It is nothing more but the expression of a bias against another group because they do not subscribe to the same faith or religion. This was the nature of violence that erupted between the Old Testament Hebrew, the nat...

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