• ChouxFleur
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          Are they the root, or are they a justification? Seems like a pretty reductive take, to be honest.

          Wars have been occurring for a long time, and generally a desire for resources (including control over people) is a leading cause. Religion is an easy thing to use to get people to lay their lives on the line for you if they already have that belief. Equally it’s an easy scapegoat for anti-religious people to blame wars on as well.

          This conflict isn’t just about religion. If it was then Israel’s neighbours probably would have got involved as well.

    • Square Singer
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      Interesting take after about a century of World Wars, Cold War and other global conflicts that where mostly not about religion at all.

    • credit crazy
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      Not really like I have seen religion actually work in making a society kind and in many places religion is the culture so without it those cultures would simply dissolve honestly I say religion is kinda like guns it can be used for good things and they both can be corrupted by bad people and used for bad things at the end of the day there are some shit people out there that want nothing but power and they see religions as a way to control people

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        Religion is stupid and causes way to many issues. And religion has always been a way to control people it’s literally why it was invented.

        • credit crazy
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          By that logic you can say government is stupid and only exist to control folks and what about culture is that also stupid

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      Removed by mod

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t think so. The religions are an easy way to legitimate wars but they are not the first reason for them. (And look at Buddhism. They found a way to a healthy lifestyle. ~Fake News. I didn’t know what happend in Myanmar and Burma for example.)

      • @[email protected]
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        And look at Buddhism. They found a way to a healthy lifestyle.

        Unfortunately even Buddhist aren’t perfect. Just look what’s going on in Burma/Myanmar.

        But regardless it’s correct that Religion often is used as a tool for parties to gain and exercise political power.

        • @davepleasebehave
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          it’s a good way to create division. especially between two people who have more socio economically in common then they do with the ruling elites.

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            No worries, it’s a something I think a lot of people don’t know so it’s good to talk about.

      • @[email protected]
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        In this case it literally is the cause. Israel was founded on this land because of the religious ties to this exact place.

          • Cyborganism
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            That’s okay. I thought the same thing before. That Buddhism was the least of the worst because of their anti violence stance. But it turns out religion is religion.

    • @[email protected]
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      Conflating Zionism and Judaism is anti-Semitism. Jewish people are overwhelmingly against the settler colonialist apartheid regime of Israel.

      • @CerealKiller01
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        Judaism has two meanings - religious and ethnic. (Nearly) all religious Jews belong to the Jewish ethnicity, but not all ethnic Jews are religious. In Israel, the best indicator if someone supports the occupation in the Palestinian territories is religion. What you call Zionism (“the settler colonialist apartheid”) is mainly a religious movement. That’s not to say religious Jews = bad. But a huge part of the problem is religious.

        • Iceblade
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          In fact, Jews are the least religious ethnic group worldwide. Something like 70% are atheist or agnostic iirc