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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Sorry for the late reply - I don't often come into this forum.
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I agree with the majority of your post. I just cut it out due to length.
Almost every war in the history of humanity can be dissected to the point that something physical or tangible is the root cause. Sometime it's land or a "state", sometimes it's resources (food, gold, energy, etc...), sometimes it is for the unification or protection of people. Even the Crusades were more about monarchs acquiring relics and loot to boost their credibility and power, than they actually were about freeing people or the "holy land".
Religion is often the mechanism used to recruit and motivate people, but the root causes tend to be simple. In cases where religion is removed as the motivation, people still tend to rally around whatever is convenient (nationalism and ideology probably being the most secular).