Wars Of Religion

For centuries, people have lived under the influence of religion, believing in person or people greater than themselves. Religion can be found in all corners of the world, America, Europe, Arabia, and everywhere else. How it got there, may be a much darker story though. War has been at the basis of all human life, guiding us to a dark place filled with fear and death. We see it as the only means to an end, and we have repeated this cycle for as long as we have been alive. Many religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Muslim, are not justified for starting holy wars, reminding us that people will believe that anything is right if it is under God’s name. Records of God’s words state it is wrong to kill, millions of people were killed, and

Catholic Church treated protestant leaders like Luther and Calvin as heretics, and in the early days of the Reformation most reformers were exiled, or even executed, by Catholic communities. However, once more people began converting to protestant beliefs, the Catholics could not keep up with all of the burnings and hangings of heretics. Another major event that helped spread religious freedom was the Peace of Augsburg after the Schmalkaldic League War. The Peace granted the princes of each of the states in the Holy Roman Empire the ability to choose the religion of their state. However, the religion was limited to either Catholicism or Lutheranism, and everyone in the state had to practice the same religion as the prince, so there was not complete religious tolerance.

The eight wars of religion escalated thought-out 36 years, with intermittent interruptions. The Protestant progressing originated in Northern Europe in the early 16th century. but escalated in the 19th century. It began as a reaction to the Medieval Roman Catholic doctrine and practices. After a procession of European religious wars in the 16th and 17th centuries, and especially in the 19th century, it spread throughout the world. Wherever Protestantism arose, it altered the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the area The wars would end with the Edict of Nantes an edict that ingrained a limited tenacity. Frances struggle with religious turmoil between Catholics and Protestants was an ongoing crisis, however, the Spaniards belief in religion provided vast support to the moral code and allowed the police authoritative power of the state to loosen its grip on the community. History shows that atheistic, totalitarian states used force rather than religion to enforce obedience to government tyranny1 .

War happens for many reasons whether it is about politics, economics, or even religion .The fight for the Holy Land is a war like no other. It has been going on ever since the Crusades which started in 1095 A.D and ended in 1291 A.D . The Crusades were based on Western Europe wanting to get the Holy Lands back from the Seljuk Turks. In today's fight however it is about the Palestinians and the Israeli government fighting against the Jewish state over the holy lands. This fight has been going on since 1947 to 2015. Even though the crusades and the fight for now are from different time lines they still have the basic similarity of two societies fighting for dominate control of the holy land however, they do fight for different reasons.

Have you ever drove down a road and seen a beautiful land with luscious green grass also full of animals prancing through it. Although back in BC and AD times you wouldn’t have seen this. You would have seen thousands of elephants trample everything in the way or the elephants with the warriors on top. You think this is bad, but Holy wars are the things that cause this to happen. Religious leaders highlight that they shouldn’t be able to start holy wars proving that they aren’t justified in starting holy wars. There are many reasons why they aren’t justified.

     To Start off, the only two religions that don’t like going into a war is Christians and Jews. As I said, it states in the 10 commandments, “Thou shalt not kill,” if so then they should not go into wars even if it’s

The Diet was so important that even Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, was going to make an appearance. During the Diet, things went completely wrong, and Charles V declared Martin a heretic. Now with his life at stake, Luther still did not back down. Luther fled for his life, and the Church pursued in chase. This went along for awhile until Luther got backed up by Frederick. Luther only had one hope left, the princes of Germany. These princes had everything Luther needed, armies for protection, money for funding the new Church, and more importantly, could encourage more people to join. At the peasant rebellion, Luther was supposed to support the peasants, but instead, needing the help of princes more than ever, he supported the princes. The princes supported Lutheranism, and now Lutheranism spread like a wildfire throughout Germany. At the peace of Augsburg, Charles V agreed that all German princes could choose what religion they wanted. This was a major victory for Lutheranism. The Church couldn’t stop the growth anymore. The first major protestant church branch had started. Lutheranism had only two key difference than Catholicism. Instead of seven sacraments, there were only two, Baptism

Throughout history, there have been many wars started because of the need to help others from living under a supposed harsh regime and save them from being persecuted because of their race, religion or class. Many of these types of wars have been unsuccessful in achieving this goal and only one notable, historical crusade has done this and has succeeded, but at a price.

The religious holy war is a conflict that caused because of the differences in religion, and beliefs between nations, and people. In 2001, After the attacks of 9/11, as a result, the 43rd U.S. president of the United States George W. Bush declared the "War on terror". After 9/11, the tension, and the conflict between the Western-Islamic world has been rising and impacted both nations, especially after just one month of 9/11, The war against an Islamic conservative country like Afghanistan started from the United States. These fast actions caused people to worry it's a religious holy war between Christianity, and Islam because the attackers of 9/11 were Muslims individuals in a majority Christian's country. By looking at the history of the religious holy wars starting from crusades in 1095 all the way to the current time, I will demonstrate, compare, and contrast the differences between the "War on terror" Lead by the United States, crusades, and what groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda do in the name of Islam, as well as the Islamic concept of "Jihad".

pastor and author of multiple books, summarizes the real problem that people have who are greedy. Domestic disputes over property or land can escalate into fights and even morph into wars. People summarize war either as acts of mass destruction for personal gain or purely because of religion. World War II was undoubtedly a reaction of one man's “need” for power. Though, not all wars are seen to be fueled by greed. Some believe religion is the source. Keith Ward, a philosopher and pastor from the University of Wales believes that all war spawns from greed and greed alone. Religion is used as the reason to hide true intentions. The terrorist organization ISIS causing mass chaos for personal gain shows that greed is the true cause of all war.

One of the main aims of conflicts is to either change or destroy another's belief, whether the belief is a religion that is not the same as one's own, such as the crusades, or the belief is in something else such as nationalism, which is basically believing that one's nation is the best nation and all others are inferior. Beliefs drive people to war because another is threatening one's own ideas or beliefs, or if another's belief is very different from another nation's, because individuals tend to think that what they believe at that time is the right thing to trust and believe in, and others who don't believe in it are wrong, because they believe in something wrong, even though it might not be.

Abstract The paper examines various scholarly works that explore the causes of religious violence. It addresses questions such as: what elements of religion contribute to violence and protracted conflict; how does religious identity motivate groups engaged in aggressive behavior; other than threat to and preservation of religious identity, what might be significant underlying causes of the conflict; and, what parallels could be drawn with ethnic conflict in the construction of religious

C. Well the Bible can teach a lot about why we shouldn’t go to war with each other, provided people listern ton it 's teachings. For instance if people reasd and follow the Bible, they will find out that  violence is the result of a pathology of the soul and. "Violence does not begin with standing armies, generational ethnic hatred, longstanding social inequities. Violence is as close to us as our own hearts." For instance, in (Genesis 9:6) "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." This points to the reality that violence  against people isn 't right since people were made in Gods image and likeness. Every human life has dignity, and an measurable value because it is part of God. So, those who go to war against each other, are raising their weapons against God. If people understand and interprete the meaning of this and many other scriptures in these manner, it will help prevent many wars.

It is obvious that human beings ever since have had disagreements on certain things in their life, and sometimes those differences went deep until even became great wars. The wars have affected their way of life usually had terrible consequences on them. Religion is one those arguments on which people in different societies did not agree, and usually different societies practiced different religions. Basically, religion formed their ways of life, and it controlled the pre-modern world societies. Sometimes, it had good effects on them in terms of war, for instance, almost all of the world religions have encouraged some sort of peace so that their followers should be peaceful in certain times, which was mostly at their religious events. However, religion most of the times were used for justification of an action or event in favor of certain people, and it was also used to practice some extreme ideologies and actions.

With a war occurring theirs always battles that take place along in creating a war. These battles alongside create a war due to the fact little things work their way up to become bigger things. For example, if there is a small camp fire and you add just little bit of fuel, that little fire becomes a big fire. With crusades, greed, power, resources, battles, and so much more, these things lead to bigger issues. Such as, in order to gain power one must give. Indore to gain respect one must fear. Finally, in order to gain resources and all the extra things, one must loose. And that’s the thing when it comes down to wars one must loose, in order for the other one to