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

Alas there is no consensus on the definition of a religion. However, if i were to work with your argument you'd be contradicting yourself.These would only be a body of texts and not a religion without followers, and those texts wouldn't even exist without people. Religion would not exist without people. Therefore it is not Religion that is responsible for wars but people. Is that not a logical argument of causation?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.Why in a world with a God wouldn't that happen? All religions on this earth agree on one thing; God gave us free will. Therefore the state of our world is our doing and not his. Would you prefer to give up your free will and have every decision made for you in favor of a perfect world. Alas that is the only way you would have a perfect world because as long as there is free will some will chose good and some evil. simple as that.What did the Israelite' children do to deserve death? I can't promise that if you slaughter my children in front of me I would turn the other cheek. Because killing you could never cause you the amount of pain that seeing my children die in that way caused me. Karma is a female dog.Seems they can't really do much for themselves.You are not being very logical are you? Let's talk statistics. What is the probability of an army of 400 defeating an army of 400,000 and that's an underestimation because i have no desire to consult Exodus at the moment? Let's put you in battle against those odds and see how you fare?Omniscience precludes free will.How so? I may know that you are going to pelt Uncle Tom with an apple before you do it. But because I told you have free will I let you do it anyway to see for yourself that one you have free will, two to see who you truly are and three give you the opportunity to chose differently next time from experience. And then reasonably, if i were your parent some form of punishment should be in order for you.Because free will does not mean there are no consequences.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.If we go by the Bible's version of history. God created the angels epochs before man. Lucifer, angel of light was first to rebel saying God was a dictator. So God said look if you want you can leave my home and do as you please and all those who want to follow you can. Many chose to follow. So to avoid being accused of being a tyrant God gave Adam an Eve a choice. He could simply not have planted the proverbial tree in the first place. well it's proverbial in my opinion. I won't have any child of mine raping anyone or murdering anyone in my house It's mine. I worked hard to build it. Similarly God simply said hey if you can't play by my rules mi case no es tu casa.Let's take the pill for example, contraceptive pill that is. I assume, i may be wrong that is was created for preventive purposes to reduced the state of impoverished families yet women all over the world use it simply because they time and again chose to be irresponsible and then to simply discard their responsibilities. Should we just abolish the use of the pill then? No because then we'll have many children growing up in homes that either are not ready or don't want them or cannot afford them the lives they deserve.Not to mention the women that use if for medical purposes. should we blame the creators of the pill for what someone women chose to do with it?Maybe you think you have no power to shape your life. I certainly do.