04/05/2026
Someone replied to my Easter post today with "Religion killed much more people than ci******es."
While that's arguably true, it pales astonishingly in comparison to a more robust observation.
If you would consider the perception;
"*systems used to control and manipulate* killed much more people than ci******es" would also be true, but
Total Wars: 1,763
Religious Wars: 121–123 (approx. 6.9%)
Non-Religious Wars: 1,640+ (approx. 93%)
Encyclopedia of Wars by Charles Phillips, 2005
An interesting day you may find interest in during World War I was when soldiers disobeyed their governments for a moment of peace to celebrate the life of Christ in defiance of their worldly masters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPMyVa_p7qU
While religion as a means of control can be used to encourage death, the primary reason for most religion is to encourage life. Any deceiver, manipulator or greater hater can corrupt anything to the extent that we allow it.
At the very least, Religion serves as a "breakwater" against oppressive governments, which have (as noted in the wars above) been responsible for the vast majority of all human killing on Earth. At the very most, it is an instrument for love and peace.
Further picking this logic apart, the statement itself "religion killed much more people than ci******es" is a linguistic lie, religion itself never killed anyway, it's a concept, someone has overdosed on to***co and there have probably been people who choked to death on it too.
I abhor the war we're engaged in as a Christian and as a human.
"The war for that moment came to a standstill"Colonel Scott Shepherd, German officer Johannes Nieman and stretcher bearer John Wilkins revisit the area in Fl...
