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Anthony Torrance Iron Stream 10-28-09 Many people don’t realize the effect religion plays in wars. Almost every war in history had something to do with religion. From the raging Crusades to the war in Iraq, religion serves some sort of purpose, and it never helps. Firstly, we have the Crusades, The Crusades was a war between the Christians and the Jews. A man named Pope Urban II led the Christians. His most famous phrase and the bribe that recruited his army was: “If you fight for God, your soul will go to heaven.” //__Worlds of History__,// a book that includes something about the first Crusade, states: //He sought to reform the church of abuses such as the sale of church offices, and to bring peace to the fractious countryside, riddles with private armies of knights that fought each other and preyed on Christian peasants.”// The pope obliviously thinks he’s doing the right thing, but killing millions of people is never the right way; and rest assured he would never had gone to war with his own religion. Then, in the mid 630’s,