What
causes most wars
We
have been bombarded with propaganda by progressives, but both the
strength and Achilles heel of progressives is that they are not truth
tellers! Their attractive untruths have won people
to their cause, and even people who believe progressives are wrong
are often bamboozled into accepting as true, lies that are just
repeated over and over again.
Take
this lie for instance: “Most wars are caused by religion”.
I've heard that one sprouted as an argument against Christianity over
and over again. But is it true?
I've heard it said so many times that I've come to accept it without
question! While I was away on holiday I had some time to reflect and
thought to myself “Is that really the case? I should do some simple
research and check!”
With
the internet, a discerning user (there is some really wacky stuff up
there!) can quickly check up on facts. Unfortunately we generally
can't check in the middle of a discussion with a passionate and well
indoctrinated progressive! So I did some checking. It didn't take
long. I found near the top of Google's list a global war museum in
Sweden that had put up a list of wars in the twentieth century, with
numbers of people killed (I think they may have erred on the side of
underestimating – in the terrible fire-bombing of residential areas
like Dresden and Tokyo [I not saying it was unjustified, just
a terrible thing] there was little record of who had been alive
there, and nothing remaining to count afterwards! – and the
civilian deaths in Russia in WWI and WWII were also probably
incalculable.) But the museum did have figures, and also one could
click on a war in the list and get a brief description of what it was
about – so see if it was caused by “religion” or something
else. Here's what I found.
PS
if you want to check my sums, the museum page is:
http://www.war-memorial.net/wars_all.asp
In
the twentieth Century there were a total 265 wars around the globe.
Some of these were very small, so to avoid having lots of minor wars
skewing the evidence I also refined my search by number of deaths,
first to wars killing over 100,000 people, then to wars killing over
or about 1 million people, (I included the Korean War although it was
5,000 short of the I million.)
So,
of the 265 wars of all sizes: only 24 had religion as a
cause. Of those 24 wars, 21 involved Muslims
When
one eliminated all the smaller wars (and I chose 100,000 deaths
before I counted what was in that category – so it was not selected
to give some desired result)
there
were 32 wars.
Of
these 32 wars, only two, yes, just two were
cause by religion. Both of these involved Muslims –
one with Hindu's in India, and the other with Marionite Christians in
Lebanon.
My
last filter was wars causing near or over a million deaths.
There were seven such wars, which I will list below:
World
War I
3rd
Sino-Japanese War
World
War II
Chinese
Civil War
Korean
War
Vietnam
Chinese
Cultural Revolution
As
you can see, none of these wars involved
religion! (Communism, yes, but theistic religion, no)
So,
now you know the truth! Next time you hear someone claim “most
wars are started by religion” you can say; “No!
That is just not true! In the Twentieth century not one of the seven
wars that killed near or over a million people had anything to do
with religion!” Of course if you can remember the rest
of this article you can quote more: probably one fact easy to remember
is “Only one in ten of all conflicts in C20 were religious,
and nearly all those involved Muslims!”
