Religion has been a major feature in some historical conflicts and the most recent wave of modern terrorism. Religion is motivating and humans fight over it (Woodlock). To be honest, a lot of times it causes conflict even amongst ourselves, our peers, and families, which does not have a pleasant aftertaste. “Religion has taken on extra significance today because globalization is challenging and changing everything” (Woodlock). Religious identity not only survives but can take on a very high level of importance when national and political alliances break apart, as happened in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, when Serbs, Croats and Bosnians were divided along Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim fault lines (Woodlock).
Religion has been implicated and contributed in all sorts of conflict and violence throughout human history. There is blood on the hands of the faithful, and not to mention that in the service of the wrong people religion can be a force of great harm. This includes Christianity, for example the witch-hunts, Crusades, and Christians support of slavery. Also the war of the Gaza Strip amongst the
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In a novel written by William Golding, Lord of the Flies, a group of boys were on a plane and it crashed on an island. Trying to survive, the young boys had turned into savage animals. They murdered animals and even a young boy. For control and power they fought, they split into two groups and fought. Much like Grendel whom after observing behaviours he had turned savage. At first he was disgusted by the human ways “all they killed- cows, horses, men- they left to rot or burn” (Gardner 36). Then after observation, he killed just for the sake of killing animals and also began fantasizing of murder “I saw myself killing them, on and on, as if mechanically, without contest” (Gardner 81). But in Beowulf to protect their land and people they had to kill Grendel for the greater good, as they