What wars do you think have been caused purely by Christianity?

None. And for those who say the Crusades, Dr. Thomas Madden, perhaps the foremost Crusade historian in the United States, has said:

"The crusades are quite possibly the most misunderstood event in European history. Ask a random American about them and you are likely to see a face wrinkle in disgust, or just the blank stare that is usually evoked by events older than six weeks."

"The crusades were in every way a defensive war. They were the West's belated response to the Muslim conquest of fully two-thirds of the Christian world."

“Without the Crusades, it [Christianity] might well have followed Zoroastrianism, another of Islam’s rivals, into [virtual] extinction.”

http://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/thomasmadden....

http://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/maddencrusade...

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006a/02...

Pure? None!

"No human being ever did anything except from mixed motives"

C S Lewis.

It's been a major factor in many, a significant factor in others, and a rallying point or an excuse in more still.

"Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’ "

"Gott Mit Uns" as the Germans had on their buttons in two world wars (Not the SS in WW2, but from a battle cry that long predates the German army.)

The wars of religion: Protestant v Catholic throughout Europe

The Spanish in the New World.

The Crusades...

None. Christianity has often been a factor causing war, but never the sole factor. Even the Crusader kings were also motivated by the thought of controlling profitable Middle-Eastern trade routes.

The only wars caused by Christianity were those of Islam, that did its best to exterminate Christianity as far as it could, mostly outside the old Roman Empire (Middle East, North Africa). Christians did not fight in these wars, but the governments of the countries where they lived did so.

Islam did not fight Roman Catholicism in Europe much, because Catholicism was as much devoted to suppressing Christianity as Islam was.

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I don't think ANY war was over religion, even the Crusades. Religion was/is the tool of leaders to rationalize and justify to their people and soldiers the reasons for making war.

The wars are actually for land, resources, and control of commerce.

None. Wars are caused by the greed of the leaders who use religion to get the common folk to take up arms and die for their leader's greed. War is never about ideology or religion except in the minds of the deceived masses. Of course in the US, the leaders who want the loot don't cry "death to the infidel." They cry "he has weapons of mass destruction!'

No war is caused by purely Christainity. It's caused by two religions who preach hatred.

Many people consider Attila the Hun evil but... he's a pagan and he and his people accept other religions. That should tell you something about war caused by christains.

Remember this before you call someone a "Christian!" To be Christian means to be "Christ-like." Also, if you are not walking in the Christian Walk, it not likely that those that called themselves "Christians" while causing so much descension , were actually Christians!

I don't believe christianity is to blame for all wars, although religion IS to blame for the vast majority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_wars

The only one I can think of is the Crusades.