Any country that’s spent so long fighting their own countymen over 2 sides of the same religion and weather to be united or divided has to be a bit stupid.
I asked Ton’s question to my parents back when I was a young nipper. We used to watch “The Comedians” on ITV.
The answer sort of made sense to me (well it must’ve done, because it’s stuck with me to this day) and it’s what PP says.
Maybe it shows my parent’s ignorance or not, I don’t know (my mum was brought up in South Africa and is quite racist (if you can be “quite” racist!)), but warring over religion is seemed stupid to me when I was a kid. Doesn’t seem any cleverer now to be honest.