Misleading Religion

I had to pick a topic and do a research paper on it with a works cited page in MLA format. This essay is about conflicts in the world today and in the past, and wether or not they have to do with religion.
Misleading Religion
When the term crusade is used in the media, people tend to think that it is in reference to a "holy war." However this is far from the truth. Throughout time wars have been waged with the claims of a religious purpose, but if looked at more closely, the actual wars were fought because of political reasons and mainly just to obtain land. Wars and other such conflicts…