Religious Wars Essay -- history

Religious WarsReligion has played a key role in wars and death. Religion is the basis of belief for humans, it is a belief that thither is a higher cosmos that watches over us guiding us, a belief that there is life after death and if we follow these beliefs we shall enter nirvana the most beautiful place. However religion has also played a role in wars, religious fightings in Ireland (Protestants and Catholics). Israelis and Arabs ( beatified Land) and the Holy Crusades of the eleventh century (recapturing the Holy Land). In Israel Jews and Arabs have been in conflict for hundreds of years because they both share religious grounds in Israel. Since the founding of Israel in 1948 there has been continuous conflict between Israel and Arab states. This conflict has been marked by six bloody wars. On both sides, religion has again and again brought the peace process to the brink of annihilation. The prototypic spark between the two sides started in Hebron, the site of the tombs of pa triarchs, building sacred to both Jews and Arabs. Early in 1994 Baruch Goldstein, a religious Jew, opened fire and killed thirty nine Arabs while at prayer. In response to the Hebron killings, two Arab suicide bombers blew up Jewish buses in northern and central Israel. Fifteen died and seventy were injure (Peres 1995 p.177-178). There are still wars going on today, Israel against Palestine The Crusades were medieval military expeditions undertaken by European Christians to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims (Collins new side of meat Dictionary 1997). The word crusade is taken from the Latin word crux (cross) this is a reference to the biblical injunction that Christians carry their cross. Crusaders wore a red fabric that was sewn on their tunics to show that they took on the cross and were soldiers of Christ (Runciman, Steven, A history of the Crusades, 3 vols 1951-1954 Rep 1987). The causes of the crusades were many and complex but religion was the chief(prenominal) facto r. It was regarded as justifiable war, because it was fought to recapture the places sacred to Christians. Charlemagne he made his wars of aggression definitely religious wars. All the world of north-western Europe, which is now Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Norway and Sweden, was in the one-ninth century an arena of bitter conflict between the old faith and the new. Nations were converted to Christianity by the... ... will stop the religious conflicts is to dream, for as long as humans have walked the earth and believed in a higher being. Conflicts have come from everywhere people try to convert others the Black Robes in impertinent France (Canada) who tried to convert the Algonquians from Animalism, Indians and Black Robes died because of that. Religious conflicts have been everywhere and they are still around if only we could learn that difference is good, to learn together and to micturate together. In conclusion I am not an atheist I just feel that humans feel to strongly about that higher being which we have never seen before, but are so willing to kill and die for it. ReferencesCollins, 1997, New English Dictionary Collier & Son. P. F. 1913 History of Nations vol.12. Ireland-Scotland Peres, Shimon. 1995. The New diaphragm East. New York Henry Holt and Company Wells, H.G. 1949. The Outline of History .1. U.S.A Doubleday & Company Wells, H.G. 1925. The Outline of History vol.3. Fourth Edition Revised. U.S.A Review of Reviews Company Washington chain armour.1998 Washington Post Internet www.washingtonpost.com Runciman, Steven. 1951-1954 Rep 1987 A History of The Crusades 3 vols