[hunter112]

...it seems that an honest reading of history would show Christianity as a restraining force in civilization but once the"shackles of religion" were tossed off Western Civilization became exponentially bloodier and bloodthirsty, just as that famous atheist Freidrich Nietzche predicted it would.

The wars fought over the Reformation were not subject to the 'restraining force' of Christianity's message of 'love your neighbor', and I would submit that the fact that wars got bloodier and bloodier was a function of technology. The atom bomb that a Christian nation dropped on a Shinto one was the act that killed more people with one strike than anything else in history. Personally, I'm glad they did it, but Christianity is not overly connected in history with peacefulness.

[TradicalRC]

The atom bomb that a Christian nation dropped on a Shinto one was the act that killed more people with one strike than anything else in history.

Nice try, however WWII was NOT a Christian war it was a political war. The bomb was dropped in the name of democracy, not Christ. Ideology rather than theology: the basis of all atheistic creeds.