What is Reddit's opinion of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy?

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It's worth mentioning the role religion had in ending slavery, as many of the advocates against, and documenters of the atrocities, were missionaries. Now, that ends up being a double-edged sword given the history of missionaries and how they were driven, in part, by racist, imperialist, and colonial ideas about the world, but it helps get perspective on the broader issues.

an interesting, albeit dry and densely packed, book is Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy

> That's an absurd statement that is falsifiable if I provide one example that refutes your theory.

Lmao, you must've failed high school if you "one example" is enough to disapprove of a massive body of work. That's like saying "99% of scientists say climate change is real" and you bring up "well, what about that 1% who actually were bought out by the oil industry or were being tentative with their estimate?!"

No evidence to indicate that particular religious traditions are, by virtue of their theology, more prone to violence or more likely to lead to conflict or peace than others. However, religion has a long history of being the main or partial motivator of many violent events throughout history.

• 2013 Myanmar anti-Muslim riots

• Israel-fucking-Palestinian Conflict

• Religious Violence is rampant in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Read Sword of the Spirit, Shield of the Faith - the U.S. used religion to justify most of its wars

• The fucking Crusades

• Manifest Destiny — the <strong>”God given right”</strong> to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent — was used to justify the genocide of Native Americans.

• Muhammad's battles against the polytheist Arabs

• During World War II, Orthodox Serbs were forcibly converted to Catholicism.

• 1971 Bangladesh genocide was partially due to one side belieiving the other wasn’t interpreting Islam correctly.

• Belgian Revolution was due to differences in religion.

• Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War was done on religious grounds.

I can go on and on.