"An interesting source of truth on the matter is Philip and Axelrod’s three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars, which chronicles some 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history. Of those wars, the authors categorize 123 as being religious in nature,2 which is an astonishingly low 6.98% of all wars. However, when one subtracts out those waged in the name of Islam (66), the percentage is cut by more than half to 3.23%"
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Religion #1 cause of war
It is worth while following footnote 2 and reading pages 102-106 in that Google book: Religion #1 cause of war | crusades | Stalin | Hitler | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry:
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