I've heard Marie Castle (a famous atheist in Minnesota) interviewed several times on the radio. Each time, she blurts out "religion is the cause of all wars".
A few years ago, I was doing street witnessing at the Minnesota State Fair and Marie Castle walked up to me and repeated her mantra, adding "atheists don't start wars".
I retorted "Stalin killed millions of Russians, Pol Pat killed millions of Cambodians. And how about Hitler and Mao?
In their book "Encyclopedia of Wars", Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod catalog a history of warfare. They list 123 wars as "religious wars". That may add fuel to Marie Castle's claim - except that these 123 wars represent only 6.98 percent of all the wars recorded in the encyclopedia!
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- Evan Shadduck
- Charles H. Spurgeon in "Lectures to My Students" wrote: Salvation is a theme for which I would fain enlist every holy tongue. I am greedy after witnesses for the glorious gospel of the blessed God. O that Christ crucified were the universal burden of men of God. Your guess at the number of the beast, your Napoleonic speculations, your conjectures concerning a personal Antichrist —forgive me, I count them but mere bones for dogs; while men are dying, and hell is filling, it seems to me the veriest drivel to be muttering about an Armageddon ... , and peeping between the folded leaves of destiny to discover the fate of Germany. Blessed are they who read and hear the words of the prophecy of the Revelation, but the like blessing has evidently not fallen on those who pretend to expound it, for generation after generation of them have been proven to be in error by the mere lapse of time, and the present race will follow to the same inglorious sepulcher.
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