THE GODS OF WAR
Is religion the primary cause of violent conflict?
By Meic Pearse. IVP. 232 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978-1-84474-226-4
The author is Professor of History at Houghton College in New York. He tackles the long-standing argument against religion, including Christianity, that religion is the cause of more wars, global conflicts and deaths than any other factor.
The first of the book’s 11 chapters examines the 20th century as the ‘bloodiest century of all’. Not necessarily because it had more wars than any other century, but because of technological advances which gave rise to weapons of mass destruction.
