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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
It looks like people have piled all over you for your answers here, so I'll keep this short and sweet.
You cannot group atheists together and argue they, as a 'collective', have caused more wars. You simply cannot do that. Religious wars are religious because they are guided by a 'higher power'. Atheists are not. There...Is...No...Common...Thread.
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Christianity based on the history found in its Holy book was not politically active and it never calls for armed conflict to proprogate it's message. The phrase "Whosoever will may come" comes to mind. The Catholic church and later many of the Protestant churches were on occasion hijacked by a power hungry political leader and used to justify bloodshed. That doesn't mean that the Christian faith was the source of the conflict. The source was greed for power. These churches just became useful tools. My Christian heritage doesn't comes down through the Catholic or Protestant churches. The Ani-baptists never associated with them. But I don't see the Catholic and the Protestant belief systems as the cause of these conflicts. They were complicit but, the source of these wars was greed. Atheism as a faith position has and is also used by people hungry for power. There are many Christians and other people of faith sitting in Chinese prisons today and many being killed because of the atheistic dogma that religion is the cause of all the ills in this world.