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According to the Encyclopedia of Wars, out of all 1,763 known/recorded historical conflicts, 121, or 6.87%, had religion as their primary cause. [6] Matthew White's The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives religion as the primary cause of 11 of the world's 100 deadliest atrocities. [7] [8]
Religious violence, like all forms of violence, is a cultural process which is context-dependent and highly complex. [9] Thus, oversimplifications of religion and violence often lead to misguided understandings of the causes for acts of violence, as well as oversight of their rarity. [9]
[7]: 3 "When religious freedoms are denied through the regulation of religious profession or practice, violent religious persecution and conflict increase." [7]: 6 Perez Zagorin writes "According to some philosophers, tolerance is a moral virtue; if this is the case, it would follow that intolerance is a vice.
If “religion” can be defined loosely as “a zealous system of beliefs and values,” then you’d have to include the genocidal maniacs of the world. BURKES: Does religion cause wars or is it ...
Just war theory is a doctrine of military ethics of Roman philosophical and Catholic origin [32] [33] studied by moral theologians, ethicists, and international policy makers, that holds that a conflict can and ought to meet the criteria of philosophical, religious or political justice, provided it follows certain conditions.
Religious suffering is, at the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. —
Although the conflicts were not caused by religious differences, to some degree, religious affiliations served as markers of group identity during their durations, despite the relatively low rates of religious practice and belief among these various groups as a result of decades of communist rule in the formally secular and irreligious Yugoslavia.
Prior to World War I, the Greek Orthodox Church received much of its income from pilgrimage; however, the war halted pilgrimage, and the impact of this, combined with a heavy tax levied on those who did not want to fight in the war [clarification needed] contributed to the church borrowing large amounts of money that left it defective [clarification needed] for the duration of the war.