New Atheists tend to say that religion causes/causes wars

New Atheists tend to say that religion causes/causes wars.

Is this really true?

new atheists are anti-theist imperialist that want to """spread""" atheism

Look at the whole Shia/Sunni bullshit. They're so spooked that they're still fighting over sectarian nonsense 1400 years later.

Islam and Judaism are the worst religions

This is more a pretext to start wars and a way to enrole people into war than a direct cause of wars imo.

Yes, nations and religions are some of the biggest spooks to get people to fight for wars, thats why you will never hear "fight for the natural resources!".

No they are idealists who ignore material conditions and political and socio-economic contexts from which religious ideologies arise.

Mostly this, as wars will indeed be fought over material conditions.

The thing is, that such spooked ideologies do facilitate smaller-scale forms of aggression, for example random acts of terrorism, that while effective for psy-ops puposes in a grander plan, by themselves are insufficient as far as the conquest of strategical objectives, such as oil fields and whatnot, is concerned - they're rather different from battles in symmetrical warfare.

No wanting stuff causes wars.

Religion is co-opted to make that seem chill

Have you not been paying attention? ISIS exists, you dumbfuck.

I doubt there's a single religious war in history that you can't attribute to economics just as much as you can attribute it to religion.

And what exactly do you think this proves?

IMO even saying religion causes terrorism or whatever is wrong because terrorism itself is more political than anything, and political conflicts of all types have economics at its origins.

That war originated in a power struggle in the Caliphate succession so a materialist origin even if ideology has driven the conflict ever since.

The biggest and most destructive wars in history have almost invariably been caused and/or driven by economics.

Genghis Khan, for example, was basically a liberal went it came to religion. He was very tolerant of most religions, though he did put some rules in place when it came to halal and kosher eating laws for Muslims and Jews, respectively. His invasions were for land because he had a massive horse, and later cattle, empire. Also, the Jin and Xia dynasties halted trade with Mongolia.

Yeah, one mistake people make when doing materialist readings of events is to assume that every little thing embedded in it will have a clear economic or material cause.

You must look at the material circumstances when considering the general guidelines of events, what set the ball rolling. Not every human action that gave it continuity.

Humans cause wars. Religion is simply a symptom of the same barbaric stupidity which leads to those wars.

There's million year old paleontology sites, where it's killing fields.. of baboon and chimpanzees at war.

AFAIK apes STILL haven't heard the Good News.

reminder only islam does. Christianity is socialism

nope. there will always be war and a lack of religion doesn't stop it, there's just going to be a different reason for grabbing that land.

Do you even know how many retards say "Deus Vault" saying they want to kill all Muslims these days?

True its only online, but it's pretty bad.