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Originally Posted by Boothy
Take any war from the last 100 years and think about what the main reason behind it starting was.
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Well if we think of the two bloodiest, WWI and WWII, that wasnt due to religion
Britain declared war on Germany in WW1 because of our increasing fear of them, and their emergance as one of our most prominent economic, naval and colonial rivals, and one of the main factors behind the war was the Alliance system existant at the time, which was just waiting for a spark to be lit to set off major conflict, and the shooting of Franz Ferdinand was what it happened to be. I dont see how any of that was religions fault.
And then war was declared in 1939 because Hitler had (finally) taken it too far, in Chamberlain's eyes, with the invasion of Poland, so I dont think it's fair to say religion was the major cause behind most wars this last century