religion and violence

Religion and Violence As humans we try to make connections between civilizations and time periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of human nature a, a bond that forms from continent to continent, human to human. Indeed it is difficult to make generalizations about centuries of modern history. To say about that something is true of all history is virtually impossible. To say that all religions are spread by violence during the middle ages …

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