Dear Nos,
You say:
Excuse or not, it still got the people to fight. "For God and country!!" "God Bless America!" "One Nation Under God!", etc.
I say:
What god? The god of money?
Religion was mostly madeup to gain control and power and to exploit other's needs for an answer to this end. It has always been about power. Preaching love and forgiveness is just the bait on the hook. It helps so much when the suckers actually believe it. You can convinces some to even crash planes into buildings.
I say:
Religion has been and still is abused by the men in power.
Maybe it got the illiterate to fight, the ones who are kept dumb. Not the people who read the word.
Peter