Two war crimes don't make a right...
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/09/israel-hamas-war-crimes-palestinians/
@freemo its an unbelievable shit what people do to each other because of religion.
Totally agree.
Even the Crusades were really more about trade routes than religion. If everybody there turned suddenly atheist, this would be continue the same way.
If retaliation were to make something right, they would have been at peace at least for 50 years by now.
You clearly never lived there... Religion has nothing to do with the hatred.
I am guessing you also have a highly biased view towards religion and thus blame a lot of the worlds problems on it.. you are probably trying to justify that beleif rather than understand what is going on there (which would lead you to the clear answer that it has nothing to do with religion).
Anyone who spent time there wouldnt even think it was a religious thing.. cultural maybe, but not religious.
History shows religion as a mixed bag. Sometimes, reinforces conflicts, sometimes, deflate them and even unify peoples.
Wars are always about economy: land, resources, workforce, political power...
Politicians have used religion as any of the other tools they have to lead/fool people: nations, revenge, fear, ancient grievances, false fatherhoods...
Political parties seem to be doing a wonderful job at controlling atheists in almost the same ways (functionally speaking) as religion. At least in the USA, the parties havent quite gotten that bad in other countries (though they too have their own things that are used to take advantage)
Fear. Nationalism. Revenge. Ethnicity. Ancient grievances. Imperialism. Political differences. Fear of communism. Fear of losing natural resources to external forces. Revolution. Terrorism. The list continues...
Look at Ukraine. Their religion was exactly the same a year ago. Or most of wars in South America. Or in Africa. Or at the First and Second World Wars.
Another example was the Roman Empire. They made war on the Greek, and then adopted their religion. We can assume religion wasn't an issue. And then they made the same with Palestine. And they keep their religion and customs untouched, and later adopted a derivation of their religion. No religion issues, I assume.
@jgg @freemo I strongly disagree. Almost all conflicts in the world are fired with religion. Without stupid religious feelings the fire would stop burning. Maybe people will find different reasons but for now its religion.