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Ocm? has a point.
I think it's a bit naive if you don't realize that the main engine behind war is an obsession and/or paranoia over resources and/or geopolitics.
Religion is a factor, but if you were to remove it completely, it wouldn't have enough of an impact to eliminate war. I don't think it would even do much to reduce it.
We'd probably have a better chance at making a mark by getting past our addiction to nationalism, which easily leads to jingoism. This, I think, is far more deleterious in the context of war than religion, if you could somehow separate the two exclusively. (Though perhaps part of the problem is that the two are often, if not always, interrelated.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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