[Fat Pang]

I don't know, I have a lot of symapthy for the viewpoint that religion has killed more people than any other human interest over the course of human history.

When we think of wars, we tend to think in terms of the nation state. This is natural, as the evolution of the nation state as we know it was based on it's ability to fight war more efficiently than the version's of statehood that came before it.

War's are declared (or not), they have a beginning and an end (with the exception of Korea), they have stated policy objectives (ordinarily land), and they embody a national will.

Conflicts of religion, rarely manifest themselves in this way as they are ordinarily 'dirty wars', wars that happen within states, wars where there are no true body counts kept, where no-one keeps score, where the only policy objective is to make people think like you (and how do you do that).

The inquisition, with it's auto da fe , the reformation and dynastic squabbles of the Tudor's and the stuarts, the Cathar rebellions in France, Palestine, the Shiite/Sunni schism in Islam, the communist repression of religion in Russia/North Korea and China (What could be more religious in character than murder committed to quash religion), the chinese repression of Buddhist practice in Tibet, the Hindu/Islam slaughter during partition of India and Pakistan where over a million people died.

All of these are religious conflicts many of which are unresolved. After all, how sure can you be that someone thinks the same way as you?

As for Hitler, the symbol of his regime is an inverted swastika. The swastika embodies the perfection of Buddhist practice, the perfection of mind. An inverted swatika actually means nothing but I think it was intended to mean the opposite, that is imperfection and perversion.