Does Religion Cause Wars

English 111

7/23/2017

Does Religion Cause Wars

Wars have become a common place in human history. It could be understood that there are several reasons by which wars occur. However, it could not be denied that religion has most often than not become a common reasoning that humans across generations have identified with to supposedly cause these conflicts. But is it really so? Is religion supposed to be considered as the main cause of war across nations, across races and even among members of the local society? Definitely, it could be identified that a distinct form of division has been caused by religion across the boundaries around the globe- however, is this division enough to be noted as the main cause of the major wars that affected human history?

In the context of the discussion that follows, a focus on the clarification on whether or not religion actually causes wars shall be presented. The definition of this subject is to be constructed through identifying with history’s notes on the emergence of war and the definitive impact on how these events changes the view on what causes both national and international conflicts. Keeping in mind the historical pattern by which wars have developed through time, it could be understood how the world’s vision on the necessities of the existence of war could either be accounted against religions division or other existing causes.

War is defined as the result of conflicting sections of the world. Conflicts often can come from specifically identifiable difference of rationality and thinking with regards a specific idea. Through time, wars have been seen to be the resulting factor of heated up arguments coming from different backgrounds and sources of social and national disagreements. Most often than not, when a conflict has not been properly sanctioned, it could be understood how the emergent involvement of military forces become the turning point of the situation (Okon, 2013).

When wars occur, it could be noted how the civilians become displaced; the ones who suffer from the situation and are usually the ones to lose their lives in the process. Wars are never easy to accept for the general members of the society who want to stay neutral and are generally ignorant in terms of knowing the basic sources of the situation and are having a hard time becoming more relatively confined with the idea that there are so many drastic changes that the war is doing to their lives and that of the communities they are living in (Okon, 2013). These are all so devastating- yet, the civilians are not given any choice but to suffer all the consequences that war time brings. What does history have to say about this context behind the definition of the existence of war across the ages and against nations?

As history presents, there had been several wars that have defined the overall conquest of humans to ideally define their process of getting “what they want” out from the conditions that are occurring. There are instances when history tries to identify with the need of wars to occur-especially in the process of reshaping the society and becoming more extensive especially in making an impact on how the people view their situation as well as their chance in conquering the odds of survival.

To note, there had been distinctively expansive wars that have changed the society’s shape of progress that the world embraced through time. There had been several empires around the globe in history that identifies well with the assumption of expansive development but had to go through the challenges of war defined progression (The Causes of War, 2017). Among the empires known to have used war as an effective tool in getting their demands and goals fully accomplished are the Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek and the Roman Empires. These empires have used bloody wars to conquer the nations and the people they hope to put under their control (Cavanaugh, 2007). Among the reason for conquest include that of the desire to extend their economic control over particular regions of the world and get as much benefit from such form of social control. It was only the Romans that generally used religion as well to get hold of its target conquests and win the process through bloodless pacts and agreements because of the capacity of religion to take hold of the people’s idealisms and agreement to the control that is being placed upon them (Does Religion Cause War, 2017). While the Roman Empire aimed at bloodless conquests, it could not be denied that there were still distinct deaths and warfare that they had to contend with along the process.

After the age of imperial leadership came the emergence of new and strategic world powers. During this time, the world economy has become even more constructive of the overall definition of social progress (The Causes of War, 2017). Accordingly, politics is also one of the common courses of indicative direction that human governments use in order to identify their relationship with other nations and its people. Specifically popular warfare include the French Revolution, the American Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Vietnam and Korean Social conflicts- all these issues that befall the history of mankind were based on economic feats, political disagreements and social imbalances within the areas where these wars were found definitive.

Currently, the most pressing point by which wars is identified as part of the current world is that of the Muslim-defined attacks on different areas of the world. Accordingly, the

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