As a retired Christian priest I am a sitting target for the “shots” fired by my atheist, agonistic, and semi-believing friends. Sometimes their pot shots are so silly as to be laughable. Sometimes I think that their comments are simple rude or impolite. Sometimes I know that they are wrong, or stupid, or irrationally biased against religion. For instance, I often hear “there have been more wars caused by religion than by any other thing”. This is set forth as if it were a fact, and that the record of history would bear it out. If this is so, where is that record of history? Show it to me please! I need data! And as you search for that data, do please look into the history of wars, and find out how many have been caused by colonialism; by the expansions of empires; by the hatred of other tribes; by racism; by tribal conflict; or by non-religious ideologies ( e.g. Nazi-sm, Fascism, Communism, Nationalism, Monarchism and the like). Do the math(s), and get back to me! Of course,