Reply #37: Most of the participants in the European theater were Christians. [View All]

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Including the average Russian soldiers.

I'm not saying that WWII or Cambodia or Rwanda or the Civil War, for that matter, were "about" religion. What I'm saying is that most of the participants in the slaughter were avowedly religionists of one stripe or another. And, I might add, that that the Abrahamic religions explicitly call for the slaughter of "heathens", "infidels", "pagans", "witches", etc.

You can debate, I suppose, about "good" Christians, "good" Muslims, "good" Buddhists, "good" Hindus, even, "good" atheists. But, the fact remains that the people doing the actual killing were usually of one religion or another and had few qualms about murdering each other.

Fighting for "God and Country" ring any bells? The German soldiers in WWII wore belt buckles that said, "Gott mit uns" (God is with us).