UNBELIEF OPENS THE DOOR

It gets tiresome. Again and again we run into the argument from non-believers, especially in the comments sections of social media, that Christianity has caused far more deaths than anything caused by atheists. ‘Religion is the major cause of wars’ is the usual line.

When meeting this argument we must first be honest and admit to our shame that there are events in the past where Christians, in the name of Christ, have perpetrated wars and slaughter, usually of fellow Christians. We have also too often allowed our faith to be used as a pretext for war or to justify war.