Without religion, there would be less war.

definitions by dictionary.com Cause: 2. the reason or motive for some human action: The good news was a cause for rejoicing. excuse: Noun: A reason or explanation put forward to defend or justify a fault or offense. Rebutall: "War and conflict is the inherent nature of man" My opponent doesn't necessarily go into detail on why war and conflict is "the inherent nature of man." Thus it can be assumed he only assumes this or he has no factual evidence to suggest that humans are warmongers by nature or he is to lazy to make a in-depth argument. "Religion is used as an excuse to wage war" By my opponent logic, the wars that were caused indirectly and about three case directly in the cold war by both the u.s.s.r and the u.s.a in order to spread there version of the perfect government philosophy and or stop the other governmental philosophy must of just been "excuses." verses it being one of the main causes of the cold war,(http://www.funfront.net...) "Religion has set up a system that causes its followers to blindly follow the commands of the deity, but since no deity communicates with them" My opponent didn't put evidence up to suggest that any sort of supernatural being doesn't exists. Thus he is only assuming this or doesn't have any evidence to back up that claim or was to lazy to write a point about this. "What he says about resources is true but irrelevant to the resolution, and so he continues after his points about resources as points of conflict throughout history." I'm sorry about not clarifying on what resources had to do with the resolution. What I said about resources is related to this argument because if you simply take out religion from the whole idea of war, you are only left with wars that are fought over rescoure locations. "If two different groups of people are willing to go to war over the petty details of dead man who claimed to have communicated with God," This might sound like a shocker, but the ummayad and the abbasid went to war for that reason. You also have to realise that everything back at that time was surrounded around faith.(http://www.touregypt.net...) "Thousands did not die for God, thousands died so Roman would expand their empire" My guess is that you are referring to the catholic church when you use the word roman. The catholic church wasn't an empire during the middle ages. The catholic church is only considered a religious institution. However if you always wanted to know why the pope somewhat had of political power, the reason for that was because the pope could determine if you go to heaven or hell. However, the church couldn't control how feudal kings govern there land. If lets say a feudal king gains land in the middle east, he would own that land and not the catholic church. You also need to remember that life back then was surrounded around faith. People were ready in arms to kill for religion. Conclusion: My opponents opening arguments were half-assed or he or she has no factual evidence to prove his points. My opponent doesn't recognize the fact that life back in the middle ages was surrounded around faith. He also hasn't pointed out proof that no supernatural being don't exist.