Role Of Religion And Religion In The World

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In discussions of the world would be a more peaceful place without religions, one controversial issue has been placing blame on one 's own religion when wars or conflict ending in violence has occurred. The question is asked. Does religion play a role in the violence going on around the world? On the one hand, many people may agree with this belief and argues that religion in a way always has played a role in the amount of violence in our society. On the other hand, the public contends that as humans we know what were are doing and our religion has nothing to do with the violence that we create. Others even maintain that we use religion as an excuse or as an answer to why we created so much violence. My own view on this topic is taking away that the wars and violence are simply done by human nature to want to kill. and we just use religion as an excuse or a reason to cover up the truth. The authors Greg Austin, Todd Kranock and Thom Oommen of God & War: Religious War Audit would agree that religion does not affect the peace in the world. they do not believe wars are caused by religion but simply the wars we come to see as being caused by religion are simply “wars of nationalism, liberation of territory or self-defense.” i will agree that some of the wars that have occurred in history aren 't related to religion but Greg, Todd and Thom is mistaken because they overlook recent events that have taken place in the world. for example 9/11. the terrorist attacks did not occur on self-defense or liberation of territory. those acts were brought on by their own religious beliefs in the Koran. the Koran was essentially a rule book on removing the enemy from this world with a different religious view “and fight with them until there is no more fitna and religion is all for allah.” (Qur 'an 8:39) their religious beliefs are build on killing anyone who doesn 't believe in their god. without muslims belief in religion would 9/11 never had happen? some still disagree and believe 9/11 happened for political reason/ though i concede that, that may be a possibility and a supporting cover up, i still insist that religion caused those

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