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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Is this lie still getting repeated?
WWI, WWII and the American Civil War were extremely bloody and had nothing to do with religion.
It seems to me the top causes of violence are something like this:
1) Greed
2) Racism/Xenophobia
3) Religion
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Not quite accurate.
The the leading cause of U.S. Civil War was slavery, which was justified on bible teachings (among many other justifications). Slave owners for centuries justified slavery based on the bible. Remember the slaves in Egypt. The bible/god demands that only the Jewish slaves be let go, not all slaves.
WWII also had a religious angle to it, the Nazi belief that christians were superior to nonchristians and there was a duty to eliminate nonchristians. Granted the Nazi beliefs were also mixed up with other theories/theologies, but don't discount the underlying christian vs. nonchristian theme.
Religion rears its head in many forms, often as justification for some atrocious act that otherwise cannot be morally justified in a civilized world.