Is Christianity a Pacifistic Religion?

[vulcanlogician]

My point to Vulcan was that while he implied that Christians have this long history of connection to war, that is really not the case. Religions might be a factor, but hardly any war EVER, especially in Europe was about religion in any primary way. It is always about way more than that. There are very good pragmatic reasons to put a religious face on a war that the leaders know is about something else (popular support, whipping up the troops, financing etc.). It's not hard to figure out the real reasons. See my original post with the links.  I think my post said like 7% had religion as a primary reason and half of them were Islamic wars. Seems to me it is only echo chamber atheist propaganda that Christianity is responsible for so many wars.

But you missed my point which was not to say that Christianity caused wars. I made a claim right out of the gate- Christianity is not pacifist in practice. What evidence do I have that supports this claim? Religious wars. Boom. Claim supported.

The only other part of my post where I brought up war-mongering again was just in case any Christians agreed that Christianity is supposed to be pacifist. None of you do, so moot point.

I can understand why you might have hopped to the defense you did because I have on multiple occasions railed against religion for its propensity to cause divisions between people that can (and do) lead to war.

But this time, it was a mere case-and-point to the claim that Christianity is not pacifistic in practice. It's a rather uncontroversial claim.

Thanks for responding to the question and, I will respond in more detail to your earlier post soon.