"Over the years if you add up the Crusades, Auto-de-fes, religious wars (even being fought now), troubles in Ireland, Israel and the Palestinians, the purge by the Catholic Church over the Knights Templar, British history regarding Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, the Holocaust (a religious war), the use of religion to encourage slavery in the American South, the rise of the K.K.K. (with the burning cross), and religious wars over every period of history (there has never been peace among religions), they eclipse Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot atrocities. . . ."

I would tend to ask "How many of these wars and atrocities were actually less about theological disagreements and more about secular power and economic advantage, with religion being a rationalization to cover the real goals?"

Don Firth