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Wars are most often about power and conquest, not religion
 
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Wars are most often about power and conquest, not religion


I understand your struggles with the concept of God, at least I think I do if you are saying that for you, all you know is that  "God IS" and that the God of Creation is too big to contain in any single book or building.  Especially ones that have been built and written, however devinely inspired, by mere mortal men.

Insofar as abolishing organized religion ending wars and bloodshed, you are dreaming - however pleasant those dreams may be.  Man has been and still is far too barbaric and caught up in greed, wealth, power territory, sex, etc., and ending religion, organized or not, would not immediately change that.  Organized religion has been used as a tool and justification for war by those in power throughout the ages, but the wars themselves have seldom been about religion itself and would have likely happened anyway.

Take a look at the worst things man has done to man:

Rank Death Toll Cause Centuries
1 55 million Second World War 20C
2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C
3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C
4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C
5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C
6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C
7 20 million Annihilation of the American Indians 15C-19C
8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C
9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C-19C
10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C-19C
11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C-15C
12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C
13 15 million First World War 20C
14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C
15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C-5C
16 8 million Congo Free State 19C-20C
17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C
18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C-17C
19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C
20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C
21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

 

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