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

"It sure as hell gave people a good reason to start wars."My religion says "do not kill", your religion says "do not kill". Ergo, we declare war on each other because we follow different religions?"Criticizing the length of my rebuttal will not make it false. "I merely stated that I'm not in the position to declare whether Jesus is God or not. "Ah it makes me smile that you answered it this way. I was expecting it. Now I will pull the Hitler card... but at the mention of his name, you would already understand what I am talking about.1) God never killed anyone, the humans he ordered did.2) Hitler never killed anyone; the Nazis he ordered did.Ergo God is no different to Hitler..."God is a deity, Hitler wasn't. Ergo, God is different from Hitler."Nope. I'm comparing Jesus to a magical fairy.He was magical after all- turning water into alcohol... and such..."Magic, is doing things that cannot be explained. Supernatural powers granted by God is not a form of 'magic'. Likewise, scientists using science to do things the common man cannot explain is also not a form of 'magic'.Anyway, I stated that Jesus is as real as Julius Ceasar or any other famous Roman, we only know about them and their existents from records and documents that have lasted throughout history."Do you know how easy riots can start at the slightest disrespect of a prophet.Damn, those riots are happening right now.A similar thing got an Ambassador and an Author killed/almost killed."Any sources? Or actual evidence? "It's still part of religion. A major religion at that.We are debating about religion, and how they start wars, are we not? "As I said, I am not a muslim. I cannot speak for Islam. You can't just make me accountable for all their faults just because I'm religious."Are you sure? Because before you said it was all Atheism's fault because Atheism seems to be everything that is not religion."Sarcasm..."So the Crusades would still of happened, even without religion?"Yes, they would have just found another reason to get people to invade the Middle East. Probably the 'there's treasure there lets plunder it' way of thinking that most people actually joined the Crusades for."And the terrorist bombers included in the 9/11 would still take their own lives,"Once again I cannot speak for Islam. Unless you're one of those who believes muslims seek to kill us all, I suggest you stick to Christianity, as I'm not going to argue for a religion I don't believe in."Yes; he strongly believed he was a Messiah..."Hence, he wasn't a Christian. "Of course, although hate and mental psychosis influenced him to take such actions. But it's a bit odd, because Jews are genetically superior, both in physique and intelligence. Especially the Ashkenazi Jews who are of German decent. It is true that there are genetic inferiorities in people existing in populaces, but I don't think we should kill them or sterilize them. Hell no. Only the mind of a psychopath would murder people to that extent."One second you're saying Hitler slaughtered the Jews because he thought it was doing God's work, then when I argue he did it for what he believed where scientific causes, you suddenly claim he was a psychopath?"Empathy, the emotion of inter-subjectivity and 'morality,' places you inside of their shoes."Which derives from the Christian "do unto others as you would have do unto you"."Apes are known to have bonds with each other, even displaying affection through hugs. It is just a thing that allows us to share food, or help someone in pain. It's odd, but it exists in Apes, but they are just (as you believe) mere 'Godless' animals."How are apes "Godless animals"? Since they were created by God?"Also the fear of consequence. The uncertainty of whether people would find out, and what they would do to you if they did. What would happen if you tried to kill that individual? Would they survive? Fight back? Call for help? "That's just taking it completely out of context. In WWII Nazi-Germany, the government were the ones killing people, who would the Jews have called out for help for?And most likely if they did fight back, they would end up killing you."Aha, but they are just Neighboring groups. Other chimps that are in the way of their territory. Humans have done this countless times, expanding their borders, warring with other groups that threaten to go against them and their expansion of territory/ control of the land. It's one of the main reasons people start wars. To take control of land for more space to populate and resources to give them a greater chance of survival."Exactly, while we may take care of our own family, when resources become scarce humans follow the natural instinct of eliminating other humans to gain more resources."I meant that people who are part of successful civilizations away from/ or before the existence of the Bible didn't seem to act in a mindless, immoral way; they seemed to get along well without the Bible, because they never really needed it in the first place."Once again, please provide evidence for your claim. How could you possibly know that before the existence of the Bible all humanity worked togethor in harmony?