Sorry to have not explained myself better. I am not blaming wars on religion, but rather I think that these super committed communists (or socialists, or national socialists) believe in their ideology as if it were a religion. I believe it is their misplaced blind faith in these systems that causes them to do things like put everyone on a collective farm and think its going to work out well. And then to start shooting people when it doesn't (because they are "sabotaging" what they feel should obviously be working).John wrote:** 24-Mar-2019 Religious ferver
Many people blame war on religion -- that religious fervor
causes war. Christopher Hitchens, whom I wrote about several times,
made a very compelling argument, claiming that if religion could
be abolished, then war would be abolished.
I certainly believe that Revenge plays a greater role in a war actually starting than some philosophy or even religion. That and ideas of ethnic superiority. Europe's history is one of two thousand years of moving homogeneous people together (an ethnicity into a nation) and securing some kind of defensible frontier. And then trying to expand those frontiers by attacking those who are "ethnically inferior".