Debate: True or false. Religion never caused any wars, it was only people
Side: False

The Oxford Dictionary, The Merriam and Collins Dictionary in addition to a plethora of lesser known dictionaries contradict your definition of the word "religion" Perhaps you should look into that because an effective debate cannot be conducted in the absence of consensus on the definition of key terms in the subject matter.Tell me a religion can exist without people.the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods:A belief by whom?ideas about the relationship between science and religionWho's ideas?a pursuit or interest followed with great devotion:By whom?Like I said a religion is nothing more than a body of dogmas and beliefs.These would only be a body of texts and not a religion without followers, and those texts wouldn't even exist without people.I have simply pointed out that the bible shows that war was called for.I suppose it was morally just to disable the horses and leave nobody breathing, even those in the cities, those that did not march to war, every army is filled with those that would rather not be fighting and a few that would.Conceivably neither God nor Joshua would have had cause to wipe out those myriad kings and their armies if those "people,' "individuals" as a group had not sought to wage war against them in the fist place.Conceivably, in a world where there is a just God, this scenario wouldn't happen in the first place, and as such the war would not have happened.First born i assume refers to the Plagues in Egypt. The only reason that happened is in the defense of an oppressed people.So what exactly did these children do to deserve death?What are you implying that The Israelite should have been left to suffer for another four hundred years.So killing children was the way to go?That their God should not have fought for them given that they were unable to do so for themselves.Seems they can't really do much for themselves.At least where the Bible is concerned I know of no holy warThe situation we are discussing is a holy war, for the Israelites to attack instead of defend and for God to call for the slaying of every breathing man and subsequently take the spoils is nearly the same as the Jihad that is being mounted by Islamic fundamentalists.If you are going to debate this issue you have t at least be able to entertain and not necessarily accept the idea that there is a "GOD."That's exactly what I'm doing.Does that not make you wonder what exactly the other people on the earth were doing. It had to be pretty evil in my opinion.What about the children, mentally handicapped and billions of living organisms that were also alive?But if you had the gift or curse of seeing the future would you have Hitler live, or Osama Bin Laden or A man who has raped countless children. Or your child. It's always easier to give the self-righteous answer if no one you care about is in danger.Extrapolate back and ask, why did he create all of this in the first place, to condemn evil as well as make it is in every essence hypocritical. To what source does a man look when struggling with his morality? God?Well that would be all well and good if God was just, but he is not.People have free will.Omniscience precludes free will.They choose to harm othersEvery second of our lives has been preordained by the creator, his plan is perfect, in order for this to be so, there is no element of choice, for if there was a the perfect plan could be deviated from and thus be rendered imperfect, by this reasoning harm caused is predetermined.