Modern wars are not the result of religion, but religion plays a major part. All you need to do is turn on the telly and see the carnage going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As for religion not starting ANY wars. What about the Crusades? They were bloody, barbaric battles in the name of Christianity.
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The Crusades were a series of religion-driven military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against external and internal opponents. They were fought mainly against Muslims, though campaigns were also directed against pagan Slavs, Jews, Russian and Greek Orthodox Christians, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemies of the popes.[1] Crusaders took vows and were granted an indulgence for past sins.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades