Welcome to Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church.
Oftentimes people will argue against the truth of Christianity or Scripture by using well-worn slogans. These slogans are designed to dismiss an argument even before something important is said and give the skeptic a way out of believing. One such slogan is that more people have been killed as a result of religious wars than anything else. And of course, this means that religion is evil.
As one philosopher noted, people who say this need a history lesson. It is true, and very sad, that many people have died because of religious wars, but more people have died in the twentieth century alone because of Nazism and atheistic communism than in the previous nineteen centuries combined. It is simply false that Christianity has killed more people throughout history than any other ideology. In her great little book, “Is the Bible Intolerant?” Amy Orr-Ewing debunks this and many other slogans used by people as an excuse to not believe.
This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit quaillake.org
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