Religion has only caused 7% of all wars.
November 26, 2013 at 2:32 am
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2013 at 2:42 am by Lemonvariable72.)
I heard this thrown out in your standard atheist christian debate on Facebook and I decided to try to research this claim a bit and came to this lovely, clear, and bias article edited by matt slick (is that his last name, like really?)
The article is linked here (I dare someone to count the fallacies used here)
http://carm.org/religion-cause-war
Now more seriously speaking, I can not find anything on methodology used to arrive at the 7% number, and the reason I question this is because the cause of a ar is often not as simple as it would first seem, Infact if you study ww1 you will quickly find that roots to the causes go back a 100 years, as a example.
http://voxday.blogspot.ca/2012/08/atheis...s-war.html
this appears to the place where it started, love how he says that ww1 had no religious motivation, when the oppression of the serbs and the assination were religiously motivated.
The article is linked here (I dare someone to count the fallacies used here)
http://carm.org/religion-cause-war
Now more seriously speaking, I can not find anything on methodology used to arrive at the 7% number, and the reason I question this is because the cause of a ar is often not as simple as it would first seem, Infact if you study ww1 you will quickly find that roots to the causes go back a 100 years, as a example.
http://voxday.blogspot.ca/2012/08/atheis...s-war.html
this appears to the place where it started, love how he says that ww1 had no religious motivation, when the oppression of the serbs and the assination were religiously motivated.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
