{"id":6048,"date":"2013-12-04T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2013-11-27T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T19:03:16","slug":"does-religion-cause-the-most-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6048","title":{"rendered":"Does Religion Cause the Most Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Harris, says in his book <i>The End of Faith<\/i> that faith and religion are \u201cthe most prolific source of violence in our history.\u201d The three-volume <i>Encyclopedia of Wars<\/i>, which chronicles some 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history, <a href=\"http:\/\/carm.org\/religion-cause-war\">begs to differ<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For those wars, the authors note the causes of each. Consider this; they categorize 123 as being religious in nature, which is an astonishingly low 6.98% of all wars. However, more than half of them, 66, were fought in the name of Islam. Take those out, and the percentage of non-Islamic religious wars is a mere 3.23%.<\/p>\n<p>So the next time someone tries to use the Crusades as a way to paint religion as the primary source of all war, just ask them, \u201cIs that the best you can do?\u201d Takes quite a bit faith to believe that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Harris, says in his book The End of Faith that faith and religion are \u201cthe most prolific source of violence in our history.\u201d The three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars, which chronicles some 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history, begs to differ. For those wars, the authors note the causes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,34,29,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doug","category-islam","category-religion","category-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}