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John said:

 

I'm about to tell you some things you might not want to hear. Your claim that religious strife has caused more wars and deaths than any other cause in the history of mankind is a misrepresentation of the truth - a lie among many lies that the masses have been led to regard as true. More than a cause, religion was used as a tool or a catalyst where the cause of war was most likely rooted in greed for power, finances and control. The other part of the misrepresentation is that "religion" in the colloquial mind encompasses everything that has to do with individual or mass belief, faith, and any kind of deity. For example there is Christian religion where people follow a bunch of rules and think that's how they get into heaven, and there is Christian faith wherein believers rely on a personal yet universal God to change us from the inside out, where God's grace is the only reason we gain eternal life, and nothing of our own doing.

Now here's the tricky part. The truth I've learned through the Word of God is intrinsically at odds with the coexist ideology. Not even all Christians worship the same God. Anything a person values higher than God becomes that person's false god. So then it is inaccurate that Islam and Judaism devote worship to the same God.

I could go on about how man can never achieve world peace more than temporarily, but without knowing if you're interested, I'd rather not waste your time or mine. So, I'd be glad to go into greater depth on any point.