You often hear that religion is the cause of all wars. Unfortunately, that is often propagated by
atheists who wish to discredit religion.
When you actually check the facts, most wars are secular and not
religious in nature. Only about 7% of
the historical conflicts are religiously motivated. Also the total numbers of people killed in wars is vastly more
successfully accomplished by non-religious wars.
Yet religious wars still fascinate me. History is littered with them. Christians fighting Muslims, Catholics
killing Protestants, Jews fighting most everyone. Whether it’s the Crusades in the 11th century or the
Thirty Years War in the Reformation Period or King Henry the VIII against
Catholics or World War II or the 6 Day War or the Iraq War, it’s no different. Yet, what is most interesting it that these
faith based battles are waged between peoples who worship the very same
God. Their faith expression of that God
varies considerably in the details, and their various prophets and figureheads
are different. Yet, they all are rooted
in the God of the Old Testament…the God of love. How dumb is that!?!?
It’s like saying, I’m going to kill you because you wear blue jeans
instead of polyester slacks. They are
both pants for crying out loud!!!
I suspect we annoy God considerably with our stupidity and
childishness.
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