Thesis: Every war is a war for god

Thesis: Every war is a war for god

Faced with the recent global situation full of conflicts I asked myself the following question.

What is my personal view to the claim of warring parties, they fight for god and on his order.

I understand god as the undefined, the borderless, the absolute.And in his absoluteness, there is absolute love and unchanging happiness with him.In the Absolute everything exists in highest possible fullness and so there is nothing that could be imagined beyond this unchanging happiness

In the first moment it seems absurd, that the longing search for divine secureness really could be the reason of war. Nobody would start such conflict out of the question “How could I find community with god?”!

At superficial view there are other topics on the foreground.Geopolitical interests, the desire of controlling resources, greed or just the own self-image as world police and glorious hero in the trouble – it is easier to find the inducing motives of war in this pool of humanity.

Out of this contradiction it seems easy to determine that the following thesis is justified.

“No war is a war for god!”

But...isn't god the Almighty, the all-pervading ?! The one that unites the opposites ?How can then war be detached from it ?

A while ago I made my own point of view, every truth must be paradox to reflect reality approximatly. On this background this clear seeming thesis didn't let me be put to rest.

What, I asked myself, is the deeper lying motivation of our egoistic striving ? Whether we try to hold and improve our position or if we hoard wealth and power or if we sacrifice ourselves selfless for other or if we live in silence and modesty – there is one thing in common – we all want to be happy!.

And every action we take has the aware or unaware motivation to make us happier. We would never hold on to a behavorial strategy that makes us unhappy – unless we persuade ourselves and in this case there would be a upcoming inner unspecific unease in time.

All our actions are aimed on making us happier, this destination unites all creation. Also the reason of war, as paradox it sounds, lies in this longing and striving for this highest happiness. Indifferent who fights against whom, where and because of what, everybody believes that winning the conflict will increase his happiness. Through increasing ressources, power or wealth, through satisfaction of revenge, greed and ambition, through appeasment of the bad conscience.

And because the motivation of all lies hidden in this insatiable desire, every war, every fight, every quarrel, every good and bad action is for gods sake.

“Every war is a war for god!”

I come to the conclusion that no war can be a war for god although the longing for him is root of all wars.

Tom Hagemeister Berlin 11.06.2011