Just to prove how little
@Gnostic Bishop knows about history when he makes these grand claims about the role of religion in history, check out this comprehensive list of deaths per war for all the known wars in human history. Yep: all of them. I think it is remarkable how many of them are NOT connected to religion at all. The Mongol Conquests killed 40,000,000 people basically for sport, honour, and tribute. Dynastic changes in China regularly had death tolls between 10-20,000,000 (only bested by Mao’s scientific Great Leap Forward which killed 50,000,000 mostly through starvation. Everyone in most of those disputes was Confucian (or Muslim but fighting in support of Confucians against other Confucians)
Sure there were many Catholic priests present when Spain killed 8,000,000 Inca’s in the 15th Century. And the Spanish monarchs were staunchly Catholic. But it’s hard to blame religion for the deaths. The same goes for many other wars of conquest started by countries dominated by a particular religion.
en.wikipedia.org