Rligion causes war (ideology, religion, world, society)

[Mattos_12]

It occurs to me that lot of the confusion about religion and its role in politics comes from a failure to understand a simple point, region is a ideology.

Lets consider ideology simply to be 'lens through which one views the world', so you use it to filter a complex world, into a more simple one. Religion preforms this lens-like task, and reflects as well as forms the views of people within a given society.

When people write a religious text, it reflects how a certain group see the world, and this idea changes over time. Juris Prudence of Christianity is a great example, with Christians starting off believing killing is wrong, the moving to seeing it s being alright if justified (just war theory).

To see religion as something written down, that is somehow separate from power relations and is unchanging, lends itself to some pretty big logical errors. These are seen at the moment in understand of Islam and its role in politics.

Again and again one can see people treat Islam like:

it came out of no where, and didn't reflect the society of the time
It was unchanging through changing society

To say that religion causes war then is a causal error, religion must be the result of a society, war must be then the result of that society, even if it has a nominal religious cause.

I just think that geo-strategy would be much better if we focused on good old power politics, and dropped this religious nonsense.

[PeterRabbit]

What means Rligion?

[Mattos_12]

Originally Posted by PeterRabbit

What means Rligion?

That's a typo sorry

[chielgirl]

You can edit the header, I think.

I believe religion is one of the major causes of war, so is stealing resources and greed.
It's all about control.