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

"The people included in religion who caused wars did so because of Religion. Religion is a bloody deep matter, which makes it quite easy to start a war over."Religion was never the cause of any war, it merely got involved with wars."Matthew 1:23 - “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Isaiah 43:10,11 - “You are My witnesses,” says the Lord, “And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no Savior.”Revelation 1:17-18; Revelation 2:8 - (Jesus is the First and the Last)Isaiah 44:6 - (God is the Redeemer)2 Peter 1:1 (Jesus is the Redeemer) - “To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ”Isaiah 44:24 - (God created the world by His self alone)John 1:3; Colossians 1:16 - (Jesus made all things)John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... 1:14 - And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,John 5:17,18 - “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.” Therefore the Jews sought to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.John 5:23 - that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.John 8:24 - “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM He, you will die in your sins.”John 8:58 - Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”John 10:30-33 - Jesus answered them, “I and My Father are one.” Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”John 14:6-7 - Jesus said to him, “I AM the way, the truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”John 14:9-11 - Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?”John 20:28 - And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”Acts 4:12 - “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”Acts 20:28 - (God purchased us with His own blood)Revelation 1:5,6; Revelation 5:8-9 - (Jesus' blood purchased us)Philippians 2:5-7 - Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond-servant, and coming in the likeness of men.1 Timothy 3:16 - And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the Gentiles, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.Titus 2:13 - looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus ChristHebrews 1:8,9 - But to the Son He (God) says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”2 John 1:7 - For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.Revelation 1:8 - “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”Revelation 22:13 - “I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”... 22:16 - “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches.”"I gave you a very brief, blunt answer to a very brief, blunt question. If you were looking for a philisophical essay on whether Jesus is God or not, then you've asked the wrong person."You should of known this too... or have they really cherry-picked the bible for you?Deuteronomy 2: 33-34 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain.Deuteronomy 20:16-17 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them - the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusite - as the LORD your God has commanded you.Joshua 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, and that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.Joshua 8:24-26And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand - all the people of Ai.For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.Joshua 6:20-21 When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city.That, of course, is where the Sunday School lesson finishes - all very rousing, epic stuff to be sure. But here's how the story continues, in the very next verse (Joshua 6:21):They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys."Those were not acts by God, those were violences commited by men endorsed by God. Anyway, those nations were full of sinners who had turned away from God. Here, I found a website that can explain it all for you."How many magical fairies have you seen flying around today?"You're comparing Julius Ceaser to a magical fairy?"When you decided that Atheists start wars.And it's what Religious people do though. They're doing it right now in fact.That's the definition of Religion starting wars. They don't require a Hitler to invade poland, or an assassination of an Archduke to stir the relations of nations. They just need some minor clashes, and they're at it- killing each other with sticks and stones."When I claimed that atheism starts wars I was being sarcastic. And I'ld like you to provide some evidence of these religious wars started by "minor clashes"."A whole group of people, fighting over how such and such disgraced Muhammad and Allah and decided to riot/blow people up about it. Yes, definitely "partially involved religion."I believe you are referring to the Islamic religion, of which I am in no position to speak for."Hitler, invading Poland. "It was because Poland disgraced our nothing."-- Said no one ever.There is a difference between realistic matters like an assassination of an archduke sparking a war, and of disgracing a God to start a religious war.Are you saying that everything like the relations between nations/economy/politics are all Atheist stuff? Damn Shaniqua."No, I'm saying relations between nations, economics and politics are what causes wars, not religion."Did you know he actually had a reason to take him down religious or not? He shot him to save his country from being taken over as part of his empire. A subtle fight for independence. And you'd know how far people would go to receive independence."I rest my case, people do not start wars because of whether they believe there is a God or not. "Cough" USA "cough"."Haha, blow below the belt. Why don't you join one of my nationalist debates so I can grind your face into the mud."Because, clearly, if there was no religion, there would still be wars of religion, because... when did religion cause it? "I've no idea. As far as I was concerned there haven't been any religious wars."In heaps of his writings and speeches, he claimed to be doing the work of the Lord. "Which explains exactly why he had all the statues of Jesus removed from school and replaced with pictures of himself."Not to mention Hitler was mentally ill, and was under the illusion that what he was doing was right. He was born to hate the Jews, after how he experienced them in his childhood. No Atheist would murder humanity in the masses.Reading the above verses of God's Genocide, I wouldn't be surprised why his positive views of Christianity influenced this."Hitler believed in a scientific theory that was very popular in the early 19th centruy called Eugenics. This was based on Darwin's recently concluded theory of Evolution. Eugenics stated that due to genetics not all humans were equal, those of lower classes and inferior races should be 'voluntarily sterilised' while those of a preferred status should be 'encouraged to breed'. Hitler believed that Germany's genetics had been tainted which is why he ordered the deaths of Jews, cripples, homosexuals and foreign people as he was trying to cleanse the gene pool." It's naturally wired in our brains not to murder someone, as it would clearly go against our survival"That makes no sense, if resources become scarce and cannot support all humanity (Pre-WWII Germany was going from an economic crisis) then it is within our natural instinct to remove competitors to save ourselves. "Apes don't murder their own tribe,"Chimpanzees do, escpecially when their expanding their own territory "As much as humans who lived away from/before the bible didn't kill each other for no reason. "I've yet to find anyone who kills other people "for no reason".