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I always thought love of religion was the root of all evil. 809 million deaths[1] from religious wars, for example. [1] http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat
by scoot 14y ago
I always thought love of religion was the root of all evil. 809 million deaths[1] from religious wars, for example.
[1] http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstatz.htm http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstatz.htm
- nemo 14y agoReligion is a pretext. Greed is a cause. Wars that were driven by leaders' economic motivations used religion as a justification. As religion became less effective as a pretext in the 20th century, other pretexts came along ("progress", "economic justice", etc.) to justify expansionist greed.
- cobrausn 14y agoI'll expand that a bit. In the same way that there is nothing inherently wrong with money, but there is with 'love of money', I would argue that there is nothing inherently wrong with religion, but that the 'love of religion' that could cause something like the crusades or jihad is definitely evil. I don't think that's what you were going for, though.