Quote Originally Posted by OCDshaver View Post
I believe the distinction is important because its religion that gets the black eye by simply dismissing conflict as religious in nature or attributing so much of the evil of our history to it when in fact government and ideology had significantly more to do with it.
What is religion but ideology?

We wouldn't have a bill of rights if it weren't for Christianity. Yet when its discussed from a historical perspective, all that anyone wants to talk about is Vatican's crusades from centuries ago.
The Inquisition was not war but religious evil, in fact no different from what ISIS is doing now.