Religious War by the Numbers

[revelarts]

This is why full history has to be taught.
I used to think religion caused MORE wars and murders than everything else. but it seems that's just another anti-religious lie to try and squelch religious influence. Let's not buy or promote leftist BS.

https://apholt.com/2023/01/03/the-my...-of-most-wars/

https://medium.com/metaphor-hacker/g...t-a3002aee387f

Religious War by the Numbers
...Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod’s three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars includes an analysis of 1,763 wars covering the worldwide span of human history. It has become an influential reference in the popular sphere, often cited by persons seeking to define specific wars as religious or otherwise.[16] In their lengthy index entry on “religious wars, Phillips and Axelrod do not explain their classification methodology. They only provide clues in their limited commentary on the concept of religious wars in their introduction, where they seem to suggest that religion was often used as a sort of cover for premodern wars that resulted from more mundane causes, including territorial, ethnic, and economic concerns.[17] Yet each war they list in the index under the category “religious wars” contains clear references to its religious nature or features, providing an apparent justification for its classification as such.[18]What, then, did Phillips and Axelrod find? Interestingly, of 1,763 wars they list only 121 entries fall under the heading “religious wars.” In one case, two wars are considered in a single entry (“Sixth and Seventh Wars of Religion”), bringing their total to 122.[19] Thus, only 6.9 percent of the wars they considered are classified as religious wars.[20] One presumes they see the remaining 93.1 percent as primarily wars that took shape due to other factors, such as geopolitics, economic rivalry, and ethnic divisions. One may certainly quibble over the omission of some wars from Phillips and Axelrod’s list, but it would take a lot of quibbling to get to the point where religious wars represent the majority (882 out of 1,763) of the wars they count and consider...

The fact is FEW have been lost to the SO-CALLED "Christian Religion" as compared to the hundreds of millions from secular totalitarianisms and just these 3 , Hitler/Stalin/Mao killed hundreds of millions.
Include PolPot, Robespierre, and other secular socialist, fascist regimes it's more. and they never leave a legacy of freedom.


While Christian activity and thinking are the FOUNDATION of the freedoms we want to restore in the U.S.. That we're living on the fumes of.