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Are religious wars (past and present) just an excuse to fuel territorial disputes?

Religious wars throughout history, to me, just seem to be an excuse for a leader or group of leaders to gain more land or territory, and therefore power.

Am I wrong? Why or why not?

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Topics: a future without war balance of power ethics global peace inconvenient truths moral psychology
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  • Barry Palmer 50+

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    Nov 22 2012: When people are willing to kill to get what they want, we will never know their true motives.

    People who are willing to kill are willing to lie, and they alone know their true motives.

    Rather than guessing their motives, we should face the fact that we will always be ignorant of their motives, and base our actions on this fact that we know for sure.

    This applies to all leaders who advocate war.
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      griffin tucker 10+

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      Nov 23 2012: This is a very important point you have made, and is backed up by evidence of the amount of ex-service men and women of whom become mentally unwell during or after they have provided their services in the military.

      You may be interested in a TED video of such ex-service men and women of whom have held onto their comradeship and therefore hold onto their sanity.

      http://www.ted.com/talks/jake_wood_a_new_mission_for_veterans_disaster_relief.html
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      Elizabeth Gu 30+

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      Nov 23 2012: "People who are willing to kill are willing to lie, and they alone know their true motives."
      So true.

      We've seen so many nations and religious groups at war rather distort and degrade what they're standing for.

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