@XXSpadeMasterXX,
I don't care whether you agree or not--i'm telling you this because i know a good deal of detail about history. You still don't get it, either. I referred to the Thirty Years War. It was fought because of religion. Politics trumped that cause because France, although Catholic, did not want to see Austria--also Catholic--become powerful in Germany.
But organized religion is still responsible for wars, they just usually can't get the wars going without money, or, more rarely, a political reason. In the 12th century, there were a group of christians in south central France who said the church was greedy and corrupt (absolutely true), and without going into detail, they called for a complete reorganization of the church, and offered a new and drastically different theology. They called themselves Perfects, and they were known to the Church as Cathars.
For decades, successive Popes called for a crusade against them. It didn't work. Nobody was interested. The Pope offered absolution, which means one's sins would be forgiven, including any sins committed during the crusade, and all of your sins for the rest of your life (people believed the Pope could do that). No takers. So the Pope started looking around for a good military leader, and he endedd up negotiating with Simon de Montfort. He was one of the most competent military leaders in France at the time, and his men were very loyal because he saw to it that they had good arms and armor, were well fed and decently housed,
and that they got paid on time. His terms to the Pope were that the Pope would pay to hire enough troops to do the job, and pay to equip them, and pay them while they were fighting--he, de Montfort, would see to it that they were properly supplied. But the clincher was that de Montfort wanted the lands of the Cathar lords when they were defeated--the Pope caved in, cheap bastard though he was, because it was the only way he could get his crusade. Simon de Montfort defeated the Cathar lords, and got a lot of land in return, and every time the Pope failed to meet the payroll, he'd start maching home, so the Pope had to pay up.
That didn't end the Cathar "heresy," but it broke the back of the movement. For political reasons, the King of Aragon supported the Cathars, but he was killed in battle. Some of the cities of northern Italy gave them refuge, and they held out for another century in southern France and northeast Spain. But the Pope got his war, and over the next century, the Cathars were exterminated.
The cause of the war was definitely religion. It was not successfully fought, however, until that cheap bastard the Pope came up with the cash--and it lasted for a long time because people sheltered and supported the Cathars for political reasons.
None of this is simple, but you want to reduce it to simple terms which is why you post bullshit such as that i said that religion is responsible for every war. I said nothing of the kind--that is known as a straw man fallacy. Once again, you're not very good at this.
