Is religion responsible for our wars? [View all]

[Thats my opinion]

While this accusation is often made, lets look at the facts.

The US has been involved in the following wars:

Revolutionary war
1812
Mexican
Spanish American
A dozen against Latin American nations
Civil War
First World War
Second World War
Korea
Vietnam
Iraq
Afghanistan
Have I missed any?
In WWI 30 million were killed, and in WW11 60 million or over 2% of the world's population.
In our Civil War 700,000
In these wars hundreds of millions on all sides have been killed.

None of these wars were instigated for any religious reason.


There are lots of reasons why nations instigate wars. In our history, which includes the major killing in historic wars, none of them had any religious roots. In fact in our most recent wars, thousands of religiously motivated people were COs.

For the first 4 centuries of Christian history, there were no Christians in any army. War was anathema
to their faith.