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Because there are powerful and very influential people who want war. And they have a money printer.

Religions fail to achieve peace because their claim to absolute truth automatically creates boundaries, competition, and therefore conflict.

If religions teach peace, then that peace must be more than inner group harmony. Real peace means: 1. peace within the community, 2. peace towards others, 3. peace for everyone. A claim to peace that applies only to one’s own group is no peace at all. Anyone who preaches peace must also live it toward those who believe differently — otherwise they contradict their own teaching.

A group's identity arises from internal commonalities and external perceptions of the enemy. This is why a collective cannot structurally establish genuine peace. An individual, on the other hand, interacts with others without this automatic boundary mechanism. Peace is a decision made by one person toward another. As soon as you place it in the hands of a collective, peace becomes a tool of power and harmony a pretext for conflict.