Oh fiddlesticks, what happened when they invaded Czechoslovakia then? Something important. Its been that long since school history i dont remember. (I just did a wiki check up, Czechoslovakia was the last straw, it convinced the allies shit was gonna go down)Gladion said:Oh, oh, oh! I found a mistake! WW2 started when Hitler invaded Poland, not Czechoslovakia. What did I win?space_oddity said:I want the blow-up washing machine!
In all seriousness now, it's nice to see someone actually knowing stuff about history, but you know what they say about arguing on the internet. It's pointless. Can't fight stupidity.
I'd just like to someday go to some renowned, atheist prof. prof. dr. dr. dr. scientist and ask him how even this intelligent people can be as naive as to believe that the wars in this world wouldn't have been faught, had there been no religion at all.
Even the fucking Crusades would have taken place. People just would have had to get other excuses for starting a war, that's it. The leaders throw in the term "religion" just to please the fundamentalists.
Edit: Oh, shit - ontopic:
My parents are from different continents, thus have different creeds, and thus decided for me and my sister to not raise us religiously - they said we should decide ourselves, but I'm agnostic. It's hard to believe in mankind but it's also hard to come up with an explanation of the fact of existence itself.
But yes, in that context i think religion is like Nationalism. I mean, no one ever fought a war based solely on the idea that their country is better than someone elses, but im sure that idea has been used to rally support for a cause or convince people into joining a cause.
Meh, what can you do, people just like to simplify things, especially other people's motivations.