@MikeWingerii In Encyclopedia for Wars, authors Charles Phillips & Alan Axelrod document the history of recorded warfare. 1763 wars are listed of which 123 have been classified to primarily involve a religious cause, accounting for less than 7% of wars and less than 2% of war deaths.
@MikeWingerii In ‘War Audit’, Greg Austin (a research Fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford) along with his colleagues Todd Kranock and Thom Oommen put together a list of 73 major wars that occurred in the last 3,500 years up to the 20th century.
@MikeWingerii The wars were rated on a 0-5 scale for religious motivation, with 5 indicating the highest religious motivation.
@MikeWingerii Out of those 73 major wars, 44 of them (60%) were rated at 0 and only 7 were rated 3 or above (9.6%). The authors concluded that “there have been few genuinely religious wars in the last 100 years. The Israel/Arab wars were wars of nationalism and liberation of territory.”
@MikeWingerii A 2015 report done by the Institute for Peace & Economics, ‘Five Key Questions Answered on the Link Between Peace & Religion’, says : 
