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I think it was in the late spring of 1912 that we both took part in the Ladies' Debating Society at Leeds. He led the discussion: that all wars were religious wars. This at the time was one of his commonplaces, but not so evident to me. I held that the worst wars were religious wars because of the odium theologicum being the most inveterate of animosities. I could not see the religious motive in some of them, though I had to admit that wars about trade or territory were religious too, waged by the worshippers of Mammon, who were quite fanatically religious, as far as that religion went.
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It's also just kinda untrue with only 6.9% of estimated wars being caused by religion. Also I would argue that the wars waged in the Americas against the natives while claiming to be religious (Although lets be honest they weren't) where done in the hopes of expanding the power of the European nations by claiming the vast resources the Americas offered or even the conquests of the mongols left a far greater impact on the world then any religious war minus perhaps the Jihads done by The early muslims but only because they were largely what spread the religion into the areas it's in now not cause of any horrors they committed which if I remeber correctly where standard for the time period
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I imagine he held onto that point even after the Great War of 1914-1918 AD wholly unironically @Laeogerman
I could not see the religious motive in some of them, though I had to admit that wars about trade or territory were religious too, waged by the worshippers of Mammon, who were quite fanatically religious, as far as that religion went. @Bearddwarf
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