When asked, "In the event you might wish for one thing only, what would that want be?" nearly everyone; from beauty pagent contestants, to politicians, to spiritual leaders, to kids, to the common particular person on the road states, "Peace On Earth" or "An finish to all wars". Those needs, while exemplary, are meaningless. So long as people exist there will by no means be peace on earth.

All through the historical past of humankind there has by no means been peace on earth. Cavemen fought other cavemen over territory, meals and even women. Cain killed Abel over God's respect. Gabriel blew down the partitions of Jericho. America fought the Revolutionary Conflict for freedom and brother fought in opposition to brother in our Civil Conflict for more freedom. There have all the time been wars and there will always be wars.

As long as humans can suppose, there can be wars. Wars over such ideas as freedom, honor, dignity, etc.. Wars over territory, greed, power, prejudice, etc.. War is part of human nature. For instance, every human being is prejudiced. If they do not like some race, nationality or religion, they don't like short or tall or fat or skinny or smart or not good or loud or quiet people. Some individuals do not like youngsters, some folks don't love outdated folks, some people don't like folks with pets, or people who play their music too loud, or dangerous drivers, or those that consider in God or individuals that do not consider in God. What is correct and proper to some folks might be incorrect and even enraging to other people.

Faith can't stop wars, in actual fact many wars are fought over faith (Be aware: I imagine that religion is used as an excuse for warfare not the true reason for war.). Christians fought in opposition to Muslims through the Crusades, Many Muslims want death for all non believers. The Catholic Church killed heretics during the Inquisition. The Nazis killed millions of Jews after which began killing Catholics. The Russians under Stalin killed anybody even remotly religious. Protestants killed other Protestants for being the fallacious sort of Protestant. Muslims killed Muslims for being the incorrect sort of Muslim. Do not forget about Atheists (I believe that Atheism is also a religion, it is a religion of non belief.), Stalin was an Atheist and wished to eliminate all religion. Most of China's leaders are Atheists and have jailed and killed enormous numbers of non secular people. History is rife with varied forms of religious battles.

The main reason for battle, nonetheless, is the lust for power. The facility to make others do and consider as you do and consider, the facility to make different people render unto you what you imagine is rightfully yours, the power to make different individuals treat you as you consider you need to be handled, the ability to realize what you want (ie: money, love, respect, etc.), the power to punish others for doing things that you do not imagine they should do, the power to keep other from having issues or thoughts that you don't have. In other phrases, the facility to be, in some ways God, to make everybody else in your image with you as their ruler.

So long as folks have the ability to assume, there will likely be greed, envy, prejudice and anger. So long as those issues exist, there might be wars. Most individuals consider, both religiously or secularly, within the rules set down within the Ten Commandments, however only a few folks can comply with those guidelines all of the time because our capability to suppose causes us to want. Wanting causes us to break some or all of the rules. People usually are not perfect. If they had been they would not be human.