> Religion's purpose is to get people to do horrible things not to behave nicely. It's used for wars mostly (plus genocides etc). Flat out false. > Philip and

> Religion's purpose is to get people to do horrible things not to behave nicely. It's used for wars mostly (plus genocides etc). Flat out false. > Philip and Axelrod’s three-volume Encyclopedia of Wars, which chronicles some 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history. Of those wars, the authors categorize 123 as being religious in nature, which is an astonishingly low 6.98% of all wars.